Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.

Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.

Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.

Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations.

There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.

If timing ain't everything, it's damn close