To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.

I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

I work hard because I love my work.

(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.