In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

Patience is a key element of success.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.