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!

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

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

I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.

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

In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world.