Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.

You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations.

Creativity allows people to be effective.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

Long-term vision and product strategy.