American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.

The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.

I reboot [my Windows PC] every night.

There's life and death in every email.

People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.