The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.