Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.

I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.

I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.

My history is to find the next big thing early.

I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.

We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.

I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary.

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated.

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.

A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.

Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.

It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s.

Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't.

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.

Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation that Silicon Valley has yet to see.

E-mail is a victim of its own success.

Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?'

Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace.

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.