Controversial Sayings

I didn't predict that [social media would be weaponized to sow political division and act against public interest] would happen.

The government's lawsuit on behalf of Netscape.

There are absolutely no laws against innovating.

An outrageous lie.

I'm committing to learn and think more about the balance between privacy and security....

Compelling Apple to co-operate in the San Bernardino terror investigation is no different from asking a company to turn over bank records or phone logs.

It has always come back to the idea that 'the computer knows too much about you.'

I would like to see immigration exceptions for 'smart people.'

I reportedly stated in 1994 that I saw 'little commercial potential' for the internet over the next decade.

I don't understand how your government comes for you when you're one of the bright lights and contributing to the economy.

Until we can get rid of malaria and tuberculosis, and all these diseases that are so terrible in poor countries, that's going to be my total focus.

The Microsoft CEO goes on to argue that America should pivot away from fighting climate change and reducing emissions and instead direct the resources it has devoted to these efforts toward human welfare.

It's going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer. That's not AI's fault, that is the capitalist system.

I do hope that people who are rich will find ways to give their wealth back to society with high impact. Clearly, they've got skills.

I'm uncomfortable with explicitly saying, 'consider it an investment'… That's a dangerous thing to say and you should delete that bullet point. It's OK if they come to that conclusion on their own, but we can't pitch it as that.

I think we should de-emphasize the anonymous angle … we can't give the impression [Bitcoin is] automatically anonymous. It's possible to be pseudonymous, but … If someone digs through the transaction history and starts exposing information people tho…

Some of their responses were Neanderthal.

I have moved on to other things.

I am not Dorian Nakamoto.

The system is stable, but there's a lot more work to do on the network's defenses against denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.