If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.

The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.

Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.