Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.

The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have said we should more than double it, if I thought the absorptive capacity could scale up and if it was actually possible to get to that level.

I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into.

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

I don't think culture is something you can describe.