The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

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.

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.

Forgiveness, compassion, and kindness are the fundamental ingredients of our beloved humanity.

Some mistakes... just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you.

I have worked like a dog all my life, honey. Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn’t think you have a brain in your head.

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

I find it hilarious when Obama's hand gets caught in the cookie jar

To be one of the special ones, you've got to want to take that shot-you've also got to be willing to fail, learn from it, come back and take that shot again.

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

With enough time, you can get used to almost anything.

There are a lot of different sides to me. I don't know if I'm always peaches-and-cream.

There is some CO2-water vapor feedback. But it's not operating on a global scale. The modellers cannot accurately separate water vapour from the effects of clouds and rainfall.