Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

I think markets are often not thinking on a long-time horizon, I think that our government structurally is doing even less so. When we have a government where we have people who are up for election at most once every six years for a U.S. senator, that's a time horizon that is much shorter than in a market that a company is looking at 10, 15, 20 years which is a time horizon over which a stock price is typically valued.

I think that markets classically fail in cases where there are public goods that provide benefits that people cannot capture. The big debate is how big these public goods are, where they exist, things of that sort.

I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free trade, you had one or the other, you should always pick technological progress. I think it's an incredibly important variable for creating more prosperity.

When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.

A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.