Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U.S. has an amazing lead.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more people to get out to museums and galleries.

Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day.