Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence

Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.

In most of these things our foundation is a co-funder, so I can say that a polio or an HIV vaccine, that I'm putting our resources behind it in a very big way and the U.S. government would be the best partner for those efforts.

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

The UK is a very international country.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society.