"I'm more interested in building the tools for others to build things than building things myself."

"I don't have a strong desire to own things. I have a strong desire to build things."

"My main critique in both cases was 'respect public legitimacy more'. (Sam's sin was the fraud plus the 'woke shibboleths' thing, the OpenAI board's sin was making a sudden huge decision and feeling en…"

"I think I could write a better operating system than Linux. But I'm not going to. It's just a thought experiment."

"I think the most interesting problems are at the intersection of different fields."