I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

Anybody can be ambitious.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

With Internet technology you can capture a photo, a quote, or an article, store it locally and upload it into the Net more than once, if you wish, to multiple sites. Can you imagine then forcing the search engines to somehow not index that information?

We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

Imagine maintaining 70 brands in a digital world - it is a nonsense. It is better to focus on a fewer, more distinct brands.

The Internet really lets people connect that wouldn't have in the past, and lets conversations happen and connections happen.