Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear.

There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.

Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.

Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences.

Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting.

We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology.

I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.

If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.

Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos.

I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.

I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.

People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.

If you go back to the '50s and '60s... there was zero tech in S.F. It was all in the Valley... and it crept northward in early 2000s.

For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool.

StumbleUpon has humanized the Web and mastered a way for people to discover online content by incorporating an individual's personal preferences and recommendations of friends and like-minded people.

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change.

Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.

If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing.

I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education.

Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist and more decentralized than hierarchical. It serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences, and it is extraordinarily multi-faceted in the purposes to which it is put.

Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.

I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people.