The scientific understanding of some of these [childhood] diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first day deaths that we need a lot more insights so that we can build the tools to solve those problems.

Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like... I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn't hope for that, of course, but if you wanted people to love vaccines, an epidemic would remind them how magical they are.

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.