Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.

If we [the USA] don't innovate in education, it's literally going to mean less people get to go have that education at a time when more people are going to want it. We've got to put courses out on the Web, we've got to put interactive learning out on the Web.

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.