I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason.

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing.

I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.