The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.

It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.