There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

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.

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

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!

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.'