"If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?"

"If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it."

"Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more."

"We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code."

"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."

"At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future."

"There's time enough, but none to spare."

"During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB."