Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA [personal digital assistant] as we are.

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

I'll get to see many disease eradications. and we're seeing a lot of progress.

America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.

The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute.

I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.