The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

Hey, size works against excellence.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier.

Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.