I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.

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

Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.