Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

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

Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

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

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.