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Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

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

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

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.

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%.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.