American - Businessman | October 28, 1955 -
I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.
Bill Gates
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Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.
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Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.
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I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.
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People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
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A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
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The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
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Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'
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According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
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I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.
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Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.
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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 is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.
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