Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.

If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.”

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

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.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.

The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.