In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.