In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

We're creating this alliance, GAVI, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the poor kids, getting a very cheap price and figuring out the cold chain, getting the delivery right, and then funding research for new vaccines. A lot of them are coming along. We've got a meningitis vaccine out, got that through large parts of Africa. That has been a huge success.

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.