That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated.

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.

Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

Sometimes the rainfallsjust for you and meto be the violinplaying in the backgroundof our loneliness's song.

It ain't easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that their body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they're on the verge of death all the time

I think that, on some level, everybody lives vicariously through couples who are getting married.

Boldness is behavior born out of belief.

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

The energy in working with my team at Adidas is really good for me. Being this is the third installment, I feel like everybody is comfortable with everybody.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.