There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes.'

You can create art and beauty with a computer.

Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you] can treasure.

We designed Google to be the kind of place where the kind of people we wanted to work here would work for free.- Urs Hölzle

Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream.

Believe in the promise of today, and have hope in the possibilities of tomorrow

Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.

I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.

In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.