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.

Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification.

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

Computers and games don't waste time - people do.

We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems

I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.