Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy..

Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature,….

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to..

Today, the issue isn’t quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop..

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies..

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight..

People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can….

The dreams of the past - whether it was public TV being rolled into the classroom to teach Spanish, or the film projectors or the videotapes or the c….

Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place..

Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and ….

When AIDS emergency broke out and was killing millions in Africa, the Global Fund was created so that a level of generosity would show up and buy the….

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough..

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of….

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying….

Often you have to rely on intuition..

And knowledge management is a means, not an end..

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life..

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth..

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written,….

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in th….

Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government..