Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.

If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?

Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.

The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.

I'd like to describe a sort of life 20 years ago as being a fried egg. There was a yolk and a white and the white was maybe work, and the yolk was life. Today, it's more of an omelet. It's more mixed and it's more interspersed and I think that that's a more interesting state of being and for some people, they'll say well I want the crisp, fried egg approach to life.

Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.