I didn't know how to read a balance sheet, ... But running a non-profit is like running any business. These are skills you need to have.

We still believe it's very expensive. It's not a great business case. But we have to balance the market pull with regulatory requirements.

In many ways, it's a business. You have to strike a balance between having academic freedom and doing different types of research, and having the work sponsored by companies that want to see research commercialized. At the media lab, we may have to go a step further than we've done in the past and build prototypes with sponsors.

He's running as well as I've seen him run in recent years. His balance is phenomenal.

I'm not in the hockey business for profit, I'm in it because hockey is in my blood now.

We could, in fact, have the whole business in profit. But we want to keep growing. We did not get $10 million in the bank to earn interest.