One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

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

If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

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

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.