I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.
I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.
I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.
I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.
I get more spam than anyone I know.
My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.
My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.
You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.
It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.
It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.’
In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.
In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events – Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima – so it’s more visible.
For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that’s a good discussion. Maybe that’s the way to help close the deficit.
I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‘Molecular Biology of the Gene.’