Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.

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.

It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.

In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.