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.

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.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

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