Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

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.

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].