As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.

Something like Windows is still an unbelievable asset but because the world is somewhat phone-centric, it's an asset that has to be managed very carefully to make sure that it's extended, and there are very interesting things that are being done with that.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.