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

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!

Sometimes it's very difficult to find fresh fruit on the road.

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.

In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.

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.

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