Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."

In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.

Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you what can be done in a simpler way.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.