Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these refugee problems that have been troubling for Europe - a little less so for the U.S. but, even so, a lot of controversy there - these things are why the future's going to be better than the past. People really do look to the United States, so we'll be there making the case.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you

In fact, that's where my vision of the coming digital opportunity is somewhat different from other people's. I divide it into three parts. One is the office. That's the one I'm most excited about and is the most concrete.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.