If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.”

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.

If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.