[Matthews wonders if Google will go the way of Eli Whitney.] The cotton gin changed America, ... It revitalized the South and boosted the British textile industry, and had a thousand other effects. And this earned the inventor, Eli Whitney, almost nothing.

The cotton gin changed America,

This is a new age in America. We must rise to the challenge, and working together, we will become a stronger nation.

We talk about 'the big one' out in San Francisco.... Well the big one in America is race -- that's the San Andreas fault of this country. And to see it so vividly displayed between poverty and middle class and white and black, right out there with those people begging for water, a basic human need, and to see that in way that looks like it's racial, really rips the scab off of this country. This is the thing we don't want to face, and now we're going to have to face it.

Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.

If I could take a 7-year view on them, I would long Indonesia and short Google.