When I was in college, for the games of that era, I was as hard core as anyone was. I wouldn’t say I outgrew it, but you always have to have a finite number of addictions.
There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.
There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.
On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.
The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.
Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet’s capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.
I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn’t interested.
People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.
I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.
With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can’t type. They can’t create documents.
The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM – and they keep track of this – is a little over four years.
When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.
The Green Revolution focused on the big three – maize, rice and wheat – and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.
Creativity allows people to be effective.
I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.