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

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

I did not even finish my studies

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

This [philanthropy] work is even more fascinating. It requires us to think harder about how we build partnerships, who we get behind. And yet we get to see progress that in some ways is even more profound than the great advances that digital technology has provided.

As we have taken diarrhea and pneumonia down, even malaria down quite a bit, the portion of the days that are very early in that 5 years - the first month, the first day - it's about half now. Yet that's the part we understand the least.