I'm not worried about the country's long-term future. This country is insanely great. What I'm worried about is that we don't talk enough about solutions.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy. On the importance of loving what you do.

The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.

Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

Focusing is all about saying no