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

I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into.

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

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.

Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business