If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

The most important challenge facing the world today is the need to create strong, effective, and accountable states in the developing world.

Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

预测未来的最好方法就是自己创造未来。