During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.

I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.