I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

Creativity allows people to be effective.

It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down.

The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice.

Information work is thinking work.