"My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives."

"My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage."

"In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology."

"It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship."

"Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together."

"Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology."

"The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones."