Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries - Europe, Japan, New Zealand - using about half of what we do, and then the world average being about a fifth of what we use, with China just now surpassing the world average.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.