Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.

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.

You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.