The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.

Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.

Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications. We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things.

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.