The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.

The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.

Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good is one of the reasons we have a coal-dependent infrastructure, with the resulting environmental impact that all of us can see. I suspect environmentalists, through their opposition of nuclear power, have caused more coal plants to be built than anybody. And those coal plants have emitted more radioactive material from the coal than any nuclear accident would have.