In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other company, especially if the other company has more people on the project and they're entrenched and people are saying that we don't have a chance of getting in there and... and doing well.

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.