Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

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.

Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing.

In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.

Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam.

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone.