We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.

Education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated with entrepreneurship is failure, and the only thing consistently associated with invention is frustration. There is a long road between the idea and the reality.

Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.

As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.