"I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."

"It turns out the same thing can happen in technology companies that get monopolies, like IBM or Xerox. If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? W…"

"I think the Internet is going to be the most important thing to happen in our lifetime."

"I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something and had it fail completely."

"My job is not to be easy on people; my job is to make them better."