You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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