Long before anyone was thinking about applying dynamic imaging to athletics, there was Tom House, a visionary when it comes to the use of motion capture analysis in the coaching of pitching mechanics.

That might be wishful thinking. It's an ambitious place to go, but we put it there.

I would categorize it as a major shift in thinking,

We need to diversify our economic base. We've got to do some very innovative thinking.

I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.

And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?