Make it just like a Mac.

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

In most of these things our foundation is a co-funder, so I can say that a polio or an HIV vaccine, that I'm putting our resources behind it in a very big way and the U.S. government would be the best partner for those efforts.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take that extra productivity and put it to better use.