The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.