If you have methods without principles, you're going to have trouble. But if you develop methods based on principles, then you can make progress.

That's the first rule for anybody who controls - do no harm.

When you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty.

A university shouldn't be a place of comfort. It should be a place of discomfort because you want to disabuse these kids of whatever prejudices or preconceptions they have when they come. You're trying to get them to think and develop, not be a Johnny-one-note.

To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making people's lives better.

Everything I give, pretty much, is public. Not every donor wants to - or is willing to get the kind of abuse and attacks that we do, or death threats, so they're not willing to have their names out. I think the other side is pushing for that because they want to intimidate people so they won't oppose it.