Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.

I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.