Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a part of yourself that you’ve put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way.
If geek means you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.
WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.
No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer.
Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.
The future of advertising is the Internet.
A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.
There’s a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.
The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that’s why they, as a whole-they’re graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that’s just happened over the last 20 years.
Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.
Don’t let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.
The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.
My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.
I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.
I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.
My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.
Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can’t put numbers to it. And yet it’s the thing that defines the way we live, the things we’d like to have for everyone whether it’s health or education.