The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.

The great companies get built by their founders

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.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy

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

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.