Our Teachers Deserve Better Feedback.

Programs Today Get Very Fat; The Enhancements Tend To Slow The Program Down Because People Put In Special Checks. When They Want To Add Some Feature, They’ll Just Stick In These Checks Without Thinking About How They Might Slow The Thing Down.

Today, We Take The Risk Of Nuclear War Quite Seriously, Climate Change Not So Much And Epidemics Least Of All. But No Single Country, Not Even The United States, Is Well Prepared. And Even If One Country Is Doing The Right Things To Protect Itself, It Has To Be A Global Thing.

The Aids Is A Disease That Is Hard To Talk About.

One Thing I've Always Loved About The Culture At Microsoft Is There Is Nobody Who Is Tougher On Us, In Terms Of What We Need To Learn And Do Better, Than The People In The Company Itself. You Can Walk Down These Halls, And They'll Tell You, 'we Need To Do Usability Better, Push This Or That Frontier.'

The World Needs Banking But It Does Not Need Banks.