This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take that extra productivity and put it to better use.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice.

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