If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

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.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

When I was in college, for the games of that era, I was as hard core as anyone was. I wouldn't say I outgrew it, but you always have to have a finite number of addictions.

In fact, that's where my vision of the coming digital opportunity is somewhat different from other people's. I divide it into three parts. One is the office. That's the one I'm most excited about and is the most concrete.

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