I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.
Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we’re going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.
Life is not a continuous process, there’s some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.
I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There’s never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.
I’d be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?
The Internet will help achieve “friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
The Internet? We are not interested in it.
Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.
We will never make a 32-bit operating system.
How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.
To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.
Software is definitely engineering. It’s different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It’s not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.
I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn’t end up in computer science.
Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It’s daunting, I suppose.
When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?
For one thing, there’s an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn’t matter if you have a perfect product, production plan and marketing pitch; you’ll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans.
If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.