I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.
When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'
When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing.
I think it's good to have different locations for different modes you want to be in throughout the day, and to keep them separate.
Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.
What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.
In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basically good.
I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.
I may be a good Catholic, a bad Catholic or a so-so Catholic, but that's who I am.
Laying the groundwork for smaller, smarter government, especially at the federal level, is going to be tough. But it is essential for getting us back on the path to long-term prosperity.
I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
