You can be a business thinker.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.