So not only are we saving lives now, we're creating the incentive for the breakthroughs that over the next generation will mean we can take AIDS, malaria and TB and bring those numbers dramatically down.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

For all these infectious diseases, the goal is to eventually get rid of them. And to do that we need to invent new tools, but nobody was doing that because there was no money to buy on behalf of the poorest, even the existing tools.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.