In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.