Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.

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

Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.

Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.