Bioterrorism is like earthquakes, you should think in order of magnitudes. If you can kill 10 people that's a one, 100 people that's a two... Bioterrorism is the thing that can give you not just sixes, but sevens, eights and nines.

The internet is just a passing fad.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

I'm not a macroeconomics person.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company