And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way.

The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.