If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.

If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.