Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

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.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.