I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.

The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.

There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.

I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.

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

More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

I don't waste time being depressed.