It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

And knowledge management is a means, not an end.

If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work."