How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these breakthrough approaches are going to pay out, and U.S. research and U.S. leadership on this should be part of how it gets solved.