Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.