In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Convert bad news to good news.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

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.

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.

It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down.

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.