Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

We need to look at less obvious paths, things like the wind in the jet stream, which is very high up. The material science of what type of kite string you would need to connect up to that. That's still at the basic research level.

When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was there?" But people were traveling around after the war, and that meant the force of infection was much higher. And the problem is that the rate of travel back then was dramatically less than what we have nowadays.

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.