When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?

The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.