Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.

Be nice to nerds,,, one day u might have to work for one

Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day.

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.