“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”
Morning“I spend a lot of time reading.”
Time“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”
Morning“Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.”
Life“Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.”
Change“Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.”
Computers“I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.”
Great“It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.”
Cool“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.”
Change“DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.”
Experience“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
Dreams“If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.”
Food“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.”
Technology“Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.”
Government“Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.”
Time“Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.”
Funny“We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.”
Food“A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.”
Society“We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.”
Money“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.”
Car“In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.”
Business“I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.”
Communication