Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.

Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was there?" But people were traveling around after the war, and that meant the force of infection was much higher. And the problem is that the rate of travel back then was dramatically less than what we have nowadays.