Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.

I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to their best performance and really throw themselves into it, you know, spend all these hours in there and ah, give it their... give it their best that optimism plays a role.

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive.

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.