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

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.

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.

Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried.

Think of the times that others remembered your name and used it kindly. How did it make you feel? When you use someone’s name it makes him or her feel recognized, appreciated, and special.

You can't jam change down the American people's throat.

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

When you come to the place where you can't do anything else, you must stand still and believe... When you can't do anything, let God do it all.

No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

I do have some Catholic stuff that is done from the perspective of an ignorant Catholic. But other than that, topic-wise, there's nothing really filthy.

We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.

Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth

What does the name Virgin mean? We are a company that likes to take on the giants. In too many businesses, these giants have had things their own way. We are going to have fun competing with them.