You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, Convert this to Android format.

If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.

When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don't know what you are going to do.

Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.

If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.

Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.