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

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.

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.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

To often we speak just to hear the sound of our own voice, when we should speak only when the words are sweeter than silence.

Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

The audience went from hating me to loving me to hating me to loving me. They probably would have f - ed me then rewarded me, f - ed me then rewarded me.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.