您最大的失败是什么？

????有趣的是，我得说是XML。是的，这是一项标准，但我当时设想的是采用简单容易的文本标准来实现应用软件网际数据分享，这种设想止步于极其复杂的Schema语言，以及XML无法获得JavaScript的完美识别。回想起来，我原本应该从一开始就支持JSON，同时把日期加进去。

您还崇拜其他哪些公司？为什么？

????我崇拜谷歌（Google）。但我不喜欢那儿。我是发明家，但谷歌的数据创新更多是基于团队，而不是个人的灵感/直觉。不过，他们持续的努力还是给人留下了深刻的印象。从Android操作系统到Chrome浏览器，再到谷歌网络开发者年会Google I/O和谷歌地图，他们成了真正的先行者。我每天都依赖他们的技术。我为我帮助缔造了谷歌文档（Google Docs）而感到自豪。

你如何做过上平衡的生活？

????我每周只工作三天半，每年休假一个月。我休假期间完全断网，没有工作，也没有工作邮件。关掉工作手机。我的生活相当平衡。

每位领导人都应具备的一项品质是什么？

????对于他们所从事的事业、帮助他们做事的人以及他们做的事情可以帮助到的人，都满怀激情。

企业家必须要上商学院吗？

????它是个障碍。(财富中文网）

?What has been your biggest failure?

????Funnily enough, I'm going to say XML. Yes, it is a standard, but the vision of a simple easy text format for sharing data between applications across the web which is what I had in mind was corrupted by a disastrously over-complex schema language and by a failure to get it natively understood by JavaScript. In retrospect, I should have backed JSON from the start and just gotten dates added.

What other companies do you admire? Why?

????I admire Google. I didn't love it there. I'm an inventor and Google is more a place for data-driven inventions by teams than individual instinct/intuition, but they continue to make impressive attempts to really pioneer from Android and Chrome to Google I/O and Google Maps. I rely on their technology everyday. I'm proud of having helped to give birth to Google Docs.

What do you do to live a balanced life?

????I only work 3 ? days a week and I take a one month vacation every year in which I go offline. No work, no work email at all. I turn off my work cell-phone. I live an extremely balanced life.

What is one characteristic that every leader should possess?

????Passion both for what they do and for the people who help them do it and the people who will be helped by what they do.

Is business school necessary for entrepreneurs?

????It is a hindrance.