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

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.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

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.

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.

What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin

Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.

I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.

Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up.

I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our forgotten families.We will not leave anyone behind.