Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.

Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. That your sense of justice says, why should rich kids - who barely get these diseases and almost never die of them - why should they get the vaccines, when poor kids, who actually do die from these diseases, don't get those things? It's an unbelievable inequity that there isn't that access.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these refugee problems that have been troubling for Europe - a little less so for the U.S. but, even so, a lot of controversy there - these things are why the future's going to be better than the past. People really do look to the United States, so we'll be there making the case.

I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.