The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted.