My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

Fear of failure falls away in the face of death.

That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones.

One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.