Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium - and then you're burning that.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company