I meet with Satya [Nadella] what probably amounts to four or five times a year - either to brainstorm something or just as a shareholder, we'll sit down and chat. That's always quite helpful for me and hopefully him in terms of thinking things through. I still have a number of friends and colleagues who occasionally want to brainstorm or chat about something, and that's always fun.

We're going to think big, we're going to bet big.

There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.

I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC?

If I was in government and running government, I think I would use the government data, because I wouldn't know where else to look, quite frankly. And if I didn't like that data, I would work hard to make sure it got better and better and better, whether it was at the state or local or federal level.

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