Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

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.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.