I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."

Hey, size works against excellence.