At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes.'

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

You can create art and beauty with a computer.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes.'

Ideas, Mike Jones, an engineer at Google explained, were like babies - everything about their environment said they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.