There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.

The scientific understanding of some of these [childhood] diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first day deaths that we need a lot more insights so that we can build the tools to solve those problems.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.

Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult.

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

I spend a lot of time reading.