My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier.

If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.

Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.

The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries - Europe, Japan, New Zealand - using about half of what we do, and then the world average being about a fifth of what we use, with China just now surpassing the world average.

In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.