We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.
There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.
Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.
I'm like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product.
There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief by well-intentioned people.
The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.
E-mail is a victim of its own success.
Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.
Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?'
I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.
A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.
I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education.
No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.
The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source.
The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.
Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.
Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.
Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.
Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace.
I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.
