Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, 'Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.'

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies