The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.

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

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.