Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.

As we continue advancing and leveraging GIS and as we keep bringing in new generations of technology as well as new generations of people, my sense is we're going to achieve extraordinary things.

I have no doubt that the digital immersion of our children will provide a rich life of entertainment and information and knowledge. My concern is that they will not learn, with their passive immersion, the joy and the effort of the third life, of thinking one's own thoughts and going beyond what is given.

While the Internet is important for us, India is also necessary for the Internet with its 1.2 billion population.

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.