When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.