I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

I know that historically our foundation has had great relations with all the administrations.[Bill] Clinton administration did a lot of outreach. The greatest rise in U.S. foreign aid was under the [George] Bush administration, that's where we got the AIDS initiative, which is called PEPFAR.

Success is a lousy teacher.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.

There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business