Success is a lousy teacher..

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change..

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers..

If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview an….

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. I….

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil..

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important..

I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started..

People everywhere love Windows..

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they ca….

Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally..

The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds….

If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourse….

If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now..

Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to s….

Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm..

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment..

We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we th….

I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I ….

In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you told people back then that this would happen they ….

As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and su….