In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

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

You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.

It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.