Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.

There is only one religion though there are a hundred versions of it.

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing doing many many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal which we all want to surpass and some don't.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

So the poet who wants to be something that he cannot be and is a failure in plain life makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

I also found that for myself since I've had no religious education it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real but they cost $20 million. We have death rays but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.

Because I believe that humans are computers I conjectured that computers like people can have left- and right-handed versions.