The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you told people back then that this would happen they wouldn't have believed it. If you told them we would have therapy, massages and spas that played important parts in our lives they would've have believed us.

If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.

In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

If I had one dollar left, I'd spend it on PR