America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.