Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.

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.

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.

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

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

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.