You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else.