You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower.

Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.