The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story. The U.K.'s rough-and-tumble Fleet Street remains something of a throwback to that era, as demonstrated by the recent phone-hacking scandal - which led to the demise of yet another century-old paper, the 'News of the World.'

The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.

In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.