A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.

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

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

We need to cooperate globally on epidemic preparedness and prevention in the same way we are cooperating globally to stop people from getting nuclear weapons.