I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.