I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.

It's easy to kind of say it's the elite that's putting you down. Well, it wasn't really the elite, technology will do that.

There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.

When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

If I were advising President Obama, since he's the one running, I would have made his campaign very simple. I promise that in four years, I will get more Americans, as many as I possibly can, the opportunity and access to some form of post-secondary education. I want more of them to graduate high school with the skill-set of post-secondary education and I want more of them to be able to obtain that post-secondary education. This is the only way we are going to close the income gap.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.