[Bill Gates] wanted me to stay working at Microsoft, but I didn't think he could be CEO and we could have the family life that we both had growing up, which is what we envisioned. I knew I would go back to work at some point later to some profession. I just didn't know what.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'

Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.

If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.