We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

I'm not a macroeconomics person.

Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing.

The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.