It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

I admire leaders in science, people who really figure things out like Richard Fineman or people who work on vaccines, tons of people working on [the] HIV vaccine. There's leaders in business, people like Warren Buffett, who've got a certain approach they take that are pretty amazing. There [are] product innovators like Steve Jobs was, where he gets behind a concept and does a fantastic job.

One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world.