If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Leaders are those who empower others.

Now we've got that [children's death rate] down to about 5 percent, so we've more than cut it in half, and that's because we're getting vaccines out, economic improvement also helps there, but the vaccines are why we've seen an acceleration in getting that down.

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.