In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

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

Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.

here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite small, because of the notion that the government takes care of everything, and Europe and China, philanthropy has not been nearly of the same scale.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.