While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

And knowledge management is a means, not an end.

The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority to read at least one newsweekly from cover to cover. If I were to read what intrigues me- say, the science and business sections - then I would finish the magazine the same person I was when I started. So I read it all.

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