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

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

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

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