We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)

Software is more important than hardware.

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.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a part of yourself that you've put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way.