If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses

America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U.S. has an amazing lead.