The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.

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

Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure.

You can create art and beauty with a computer.

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.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.