The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

Change the boundaries of business.

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.

With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.