Part of the magic of economic growth is how you educate people, and the leading economies have to stay in front of that. From an economic point of view, it affects competitiveness and creates jobs. Or from a social justice point of view, you can take someone in the bottom tier of income and let him compete to be a doctor or lawyer. The education system is the only reason the dream of equal opportunity has a chance of being delivered - and we're not running a good education system.

We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's created the worldwide software industry that... that is so very competitive and moving so quickly.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.

I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.

The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.