If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?

Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large.

I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.