We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm..

If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourse….

The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really ….

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated….

The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be becau….

I don't believe in creating dynastic wealth. I don't really believe that in a society that aspires to be meritocratic and that believes in equality o….

If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thi….

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read th….

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jo….

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. ….

All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonab….

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up imme….

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event..

My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a pri….

I believe in generous aid policies..

The Internet? We are not interested in it.

It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they sho….

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer..

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy..

People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software busi….

Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing ….