Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

It was really phenomenal [Warren Buffett donation]. It grew out of the friendship that we had and the fact that his plan to have his wife run the foundation and give things away changed when she tragically died.

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.