The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice.

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.

You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.