While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always work.

The microprocessor is a miracle.

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

Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.

We're creating this alliance, GAVI, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the poor kids, getting a very cheap price and figuring out the cold chain, getting the delivery right, and then funding research for new vaccines. A lot of them are coming along. We've got a meningitis vaccine out, got that through large parts of Africa. That has been a huge success.

I am results-oriented.

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.