I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.

I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses

I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.

I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Don't let complexity stop you.