Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

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

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.