We gradually came to the realization that we were hurting not just ourselves but the Chinese people.

I totally understand that people are upset about it and I think that is a reasonable point of view to take.

We just want to have great people working for us.

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.