I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

Life is not fair get used to used to it

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

I don't think culture is something you can describe.