I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it

A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.

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

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.

Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.