With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?

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

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

When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.

For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high