I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.