Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.