The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

If you think backwards from a big problem, and you talk to all these other people who have skills and who think forward from their skills, it's very easy to form collaborations because everyone is incentivized to work together.

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. But hey, you know what? That was five years ago, and now computers are faster, or some new information has come along, the world is different. So we're able to reboot the project.

Work backward from your goal.