I don't think culture is something you can describe.

The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries - Europe, Japan, New Zealand - using about half of what we do, and then the world average being about a fifth of what we use, with China just now surpassing the world average.

R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves and the world and our economy have been very, very clear. I'm hopeful we can make a very strong case there. Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.