When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.