If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.