It's fantastic that Microsoft in the cloud space is one of very few companies that's got the critical mass, the particular emphasis on helping business customers get up to that cloud with all the unique requirements they have. It's very exciting.

When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?

Nobody has a guaranteed position in computer technologies business. We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast and the structure of the business as it broadens out is going to be so different.

To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on.

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.