In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you'd be more likely to slow things down.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.