As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

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

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

That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.

I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.