During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.

The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.

I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.