When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.

That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new startup companies should take it. In the $3 trillion a year energy market, the rewards will be quite fantastic.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

If we [the USA] don't innovate in education, it's literally going to mean less people get to go have that education at a time when more people are going to want it. We've got to put courses out on the Web, we've got to put interactive learning out on the Web.