I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.

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.

Bitcoin is a technological tour de force

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.