You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.


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If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of foo...
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Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has bee...
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We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
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The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.
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We want to further eliminate friction among heterogeneous architectures and applications without com...
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As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... befor...
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You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything th...
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People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which wil...
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Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence ...
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Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently di...
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The incredible momentum around all these new products and services shows that the digital lifestyle ...
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Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in t...
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The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity ...
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Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year d...
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If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do...
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feare...
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Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area...
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Most of the other things they have done (are) nowhere near as good as what we or others have done.
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I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that ma...
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The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing ...
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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good ...
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Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to d...
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TV historically has been a broadcast medium in which everybody's picking from a finite number of cha...
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