As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption.

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.