We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other.

We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world.

Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.

I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.