Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!
A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
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.
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'
It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.
Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
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.
Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost.
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.
