No company has a culture, every company is a culture
Entrepreneurship: you put one dumb foot in front of the other while the world throws bricks at your head.
If you take one typewriter and build 100, you’ve made horizontal progress. If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress.
Every one of today’s smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.
It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.
People don’t want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology – all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.
The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won’t start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won’t start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.
We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.
Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors… But I think they’re quite positive when they’re dynamic and do something new.
Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.
If the whole U.S. was like Silicon Valley, we’d be in good shape. But now, the entire U.S. is not driven by technology, is not driven by innovation.