The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

Technology has been and always will be my one true passion professionally.

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill that meant not doing what people expected.

We are looking for development partners people to work alongside us which will accelerate our actually getting licences the technology into product into the markets.

Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe providing services through all kinds of technology.

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.

My problem is that I like technology but I always have to ask myself 'Now wait a minute will I actually have any use for this?'

I love technology and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them but I love them.

I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.