Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day.

If we [the USA] don't innovate in education, it's literally going to mean less people get to go have that education at a time when more people are going to want it. We've got to put courses out on the Web, we've got to put interactive learning out on the Web.

There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.