Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen..

When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly har….

I love nuclear. It does this radiation thing that's tricky. But they're good solutions. You know, it was interesting; recently, in Connecticut this n….

We're changing the world with technology..

The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving….

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw..

We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !.

Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf..

By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect….

Finally, assuming that many of those are fulfilled, which won't be easy in tight budget times, we're taking the supply side at the basic research lev….

Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like t….

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it..

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging..

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the pr….

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up..

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect..

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved..

I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime..

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble..

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases..

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings..