If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.

I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

Architecture is politics.