We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's created the worldwide software industry that... that is so very competitive and moving so quickly.

Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.

The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.

Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.