The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

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

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

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