People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA [personal digital assistant] as we are.

Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you what can be done in a simpler way.

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

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

Long-term vision and product strategy.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.