There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.
Windows 95 was a nice milestone.
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.
We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.
That it's a worldwide thing that families are better off.
Being maniacal about something is very helpful.
The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.
Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.
People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?'
