If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.
The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.
We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News.
I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.
Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.
What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind.
Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'
Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.
For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.
The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.
People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular.
International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market.
We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.
We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.
It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google.
I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.
