The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.

I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.

Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.

Facebook is a platform inside a platform.

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

Google never knew how successful key words would be.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?