China And The U.s. Need Each Other

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.

In A Budget, How Important Is Art Versus Music Versus Athletics Versus Computer Programming? At The End Of The Day, Some Of Those Trade-offs Will Be Made Politically.

If Somebody Is Working On A New Medicine, Computer Science Helps Us Model Those Things. We Have A Whole Group Here In Seattle Called The Institute For Disease Modelling That Is A Mix Of Computer Science And Math-type People, And The Progress We're Making In Polio Or Plans For Malaria Or Really Driven By Their Deep Insights.

I Am Surprised That In Various Countries, Whether It's The U.k. Or The U.s., You See Isolationist Tendencies That Would Tend To Work Against The Co-operation, Whether It's Climate Change, Immigration, Innovation, Helping The Very Poorest. Those Are Things Where You Want To Think Across Country Boundaries And See A Win-win-type Solution.

Well Private Money Can Take Risks In A Way That Government Money Often Isn't Willing To.