Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation and they got infected with malaria, and partly cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

The best teacher is very interactive.

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