Reward worthy failure - Experimentation..

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education..

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet….

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is..

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning..

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity..

That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously..

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There ….

I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead..

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft..

I spend a lot of time reading..

We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail tha….

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it..

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'.

Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling disparities of heal….

The internet is just a passing fad..

I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war….

The concept of this so-called "TerraPower reactor" is that you, in the same reactor, you both burn and breed. So, instead of making plutonium and the….

Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd j….

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change..