In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.

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

Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.

I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.