Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley