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

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.

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.

A wolf searches the path for prey that has paused. Keep moving.

Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'm real, I'm solid, I'm alive! Don't you like this?

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

Use every customer point of contact to weave stories about who you are and what your brand stands for.

Do it from the heart or not at all.

Reality does get a bad rap. But I'm not concerned about it 'cause I know who I am. They can edit it, but you are in charge of what you do.

I love recording lines. It's like being an actor without having to really act.