Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.