In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.