Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It’s fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.
Every day were saying, ‘How can we keep this customer happy?’ How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don’t, somebody else will.
Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you’ll see someone else’s program or somebody will come along and they’ll show you what can be done in a simpler way.
Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren’t defeated by it. You’re learning from it.
Bitcoin is a technological tour de force.
Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.
Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.
Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
The internet is just a passing fad.
Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC’s hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.
With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.
Being maniacal about something is very helpful.
The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn’t work.
Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
We need to start thinking about the Future of Food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.
Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.