If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted.

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.