If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.

Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum.

You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.

You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.

How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.