That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.

I think of myself as a global citizen.

Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.