If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft – the defining company of the industry.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
What is design? It’s where you stand with a foot in two worlds – the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes – and you try to bring the two together.
The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.
Entrepreneurship is not only a mindset but a skillset.
I was trying to figure out what to do next, I’d been accumulating ideas for productivity tools – software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.
Inside every working anarchy, there’s an Old Boy Network...
We’ve already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising – more than promising, I think, it’s substantial.
That’s why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it’s chartered by the government. It can’t be pocketed.
I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.
Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school – this was in the 1960s.
Architecture is politics.