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.
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.