In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.