progress Quotes

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

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

I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

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%.

The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.