We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.

I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.

My history is to find the next big thing early.

I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.

I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.

Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time.

There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.'

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser.

You can't be in the tech community... without realizing there's a big shortage of talent.

When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met.

Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst.

Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.

Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up.

Life in cyberspace seems to be shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted: founded on the primacy of individual liberty and a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and community.

I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.

The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.

We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians who believe in a completely minimalist state, and don't feel we have that responsibility, are harming humanity.

It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.

I believe in having an impact in doing things.

My view is that Trump will not change the Republican Party, America's right-of-center party. If he brings in new followers, that's great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.

The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice.

After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

Putin is a former KGB agent. He's a thug. He was not elected in a way that most people would consider a credible election.

The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.

I just want to remind everybody that this is an extraordinarily resilient country we live in.

The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to - meaning a place where nothing is decided without a good dose of deliberation and debate, as well as input from both the majority and minority parties - it arrives at a result that is acceptable to people all along the political spectrum.

We need to say to everyone on Election Day, 'Those of you who helped make this a good day, you need to go out and help us finish the job.'

We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.

People are genuinely excited about taking the country in another direction.

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. That's why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And that's why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that's ready for a comeback.

NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

When you hang the 'bipartisan' tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there's a broad agreement that that's the way forward.

I'm not going to comment on White House personnel selections.

Nurses told my mother that I was going to be OK. They thought I could walk without a limp and without a brace. And we stopped in a shoe store on the way home and bought a pair of low-top saddle Oxford shoes, which was sort of a symbol that I was going to be a normal little boy.

As I've said repeatedly over the last few years, the war on coal was not a result of anything Congress passed; there was no legislation.

More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.

America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department.

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first administration.

Diplomacy is important, extremely important, and I don't think these reductions at the State Department are appropriate because many times diplomacy is a lot more effective - and cert cheaper - than military engagement.

Trump was able to convey - oddly enough a message from a billionaire who lives in Manhattan - a genuine concern for people who felt kind of left off, who felt offended by all the political correctness they see around them.