These days, the problem isn’t how to innovate; it’s how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
In 20 or 30 years, you’ll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.
The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.
The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don’t get collectively smarter, we’re doomed.
Sometimes I apologize. It started that way and we never did change it.
Boosting mankind’s capability for coping with complex, urgent problems.