I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

People everywhere love Windows.

I'm cooler than you. WAAAY cooler.