For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women from the villages, getting them the vaccines and asking them to go around and find the children.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!