If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

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.

Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

The ultimate search engine... would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

We have always believed that it's possible to make money without being evil.