Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

I love nuclear. It does this radiation thing that's tricky. But they're good solutions. You know, it was interesting; recently, in Connecticut this natural gas plant blew up 11 guys. It just blew them up.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or disease - that they achieve their full potential. We take for Warren [Buffett] things that, because he's very intelligent about the world but doesn't get to go out in Africa and see what we see, we've taken and say to him where we stand and it's basically a very positive report that his gift has made a phenomenal difference.