Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it...

Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.

I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.

I will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.

Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.

Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.

Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.

Law and order comes from having respect for one another.