I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of say, three, and then have some miraculous storage solution, so that not only over the 24-hour day but over long periods of time where the wind doesn't blow, you have reliable energy. That's a path. But energy storage is hard. That's not a guaranteed path.

Creativity allows people to be effective.

Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.