The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.