When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.

Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.

No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

We're in a period of uncertainty about [Donald Trump] administration policies and the range of what might happen is particularly higher. I don't think that these R&D and innovation budgets will be substantially reduced.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.