Just as words in their proper places form sentences, each individual strike must be done in the proper order to get the desired result: a flat stone blade.

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? Its the ticket to solving the worlds problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isnt for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

There's one thing that shows up on all of the lists of what makes us human: language. Our ability to share our thoughts and complex information with others far surpasses all the barks, squeaks and growls of our animal friends.

Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.

An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.

One day robots may even babysit our kids, a job that has always required a human touch.

The rise of the citizen review site is a sobering development. No longer are you on top of the mountain, blasting your marketing message down to the masses through your megaphone. All of a sudden, the masses are conversing with one another. If your service or product isn't any good, they'll out you.

For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths.

If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

People won't start dumping Google en masse Google is a habit.

My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, “Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.”

Everyones always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, Probably never.

The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.