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

Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence

One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.

Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.