Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.