People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings from people who've been out there and seen, "this tool is not going to work there, there's more of a problem here than you know." You should really get involved in that.

The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.