Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.

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.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive.

Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

I'm not a macroeconomics person.

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.