We should be focusing on building things that do not exist.

If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.

I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways - by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.

I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.

As a precaution, we’re making machines extremely heavy with very tiny legs.