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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.