Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works.

I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

Common Core is a big win for education.

With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.