Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

I've worked very hard, but my life's always been fun.

I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.