People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.

Search companies, which I won't mention by name, tried to do so many things at the same time, they forgot all about search. They either missed the next revolution of search or they created an opening for a Google to enter.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.

I think to some degree one of the strengths of the high tech industry is that people are actually willing to tell you things. When I went to Novell, I didn't know how to be a CEO, so I went in and I called all sorts of CEOs I knew. I called in a favor. I wanted to come by and listen to them tell me what it's like to be a CEO.

Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.

I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.