Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.
I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
I find golf very relaxing. It’s a way to get away from work and get outside. It’s a lot of fun, and once you get going it’s almost kind of addictive.
I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: ‘Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.’ I want to thank Harvard for this honor. I’ll be changing my job next year and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume!
Hey, size works against excellence.
We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it’s going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act.
Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They’re the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.
If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.
You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.
If I think something’s a waste of time or inappropriate I don’t wait to point it out. I say it right away. It’s real time. So you might hear me say ‘That’s the dumbest idea I have ever heard’ many times during a meeting.
Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Make it just like a Mac.
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.
I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.
The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.
The world needs banking but it does not need banks.
A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.
I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.