It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

We're in a period of uncertainty about [Donald Trump] administration policies and the range of what might happen is particularly higher. I don't think that these R&D and innovation budgets will be substantially reduced.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons.