People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

It was really phenomenal [Warren Buffett donation]. It grew out of the friendship that we had and the fact that his plan to have his wife run the foundation and give things away changed when she tragically died.