Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.