Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

I believe in generous aid policies.

The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.