I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
Here at work we’re all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.
It’s an experiment, and it’s probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.
We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
We’re only at the beginning of what we have to do here.
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.
The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.
The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition is to do an outstanding job with information.
I feel pretty stupid that I don’t know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.
If I only had two dollars left I would spend one dollar on PR.
A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.
We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.
Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.
Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‘satisfactory,’ I would have no hope of ever getting better.
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.