Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.

Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

The science doesn't prove Common Core's effective. So I guess what I mean is science is an essential part of any decision-making process, and so is public involvement. And in the long-term, you lose legitimacy and power if you don't directly engage with the public.