I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.