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.

Finally, assuming that many of those are fulfilled, which won't be easy in tight budget times, we're taking the supply side at the basic research level, because that's where government is absolutely fundamental.

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.

That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.