I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

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