Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.

It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.