I'm Cooler Than You. Waaay Cooler.

The Microprocessor Is A Miracle.

The Government's Ability To Select Scientists And Pick Things That Are Fairly Strange, Because Politicians Don't Like Failures. They're Only In Office A Short Term, And Many Of These Things Take A Long Time.

When Ford Sells A Car, A Dealer Isn't Allowed To Take Out The Engine And Put A Different One In. When A Newsstand Sells The Washington Post, No One Can Go To The Newsstand And Pay Them To Rip Out The Classified Section And Put Their Own Classified Section In - If They Could, They Would Do So.

Innovation Is A Good Thing. The Human Condition - Put Aside Bioterrorism And A Few Footnotes - Is Improving Because Of Innovation.

Take Agriculture, Where We Haven't Done Much, Or Sanitation; Saying, "okay, We Will Be Able To Make A Really Huge Effort There." It Really Energized The Foundation And Half Of What We've Gotten Done In This Last Decade Is Because Warren [buffett] Trusted Us.