So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.

As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons.

When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".

If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!

You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.