The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest price, but buy for those people these medicines, we see scientists everywhere coming up with those new tools.

If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with.

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

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.