Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Technology
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
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Philanthropy
Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries — but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.
If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions, they will be moved to act.
As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know this fact. It just doesn't sink in.
Education & Life
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
Reading is still the main way that I both learn new things and test my understanding.
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Leadership
Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Energy innovation is not a luxury. It is a necessity.