The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.
Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.
The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that’s expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren’t used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.
The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
I’m an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.
Google is all about information. So the notion of using and presenting information in the right point at the right time to users is what, in essence, describes Google.
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