People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten..

Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card..

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley..

We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's created th….

My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy..

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there,….

My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases..

I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's tended to be ….

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position..

During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world w….

Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a cle….

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising ….

When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security..

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that..

We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect….

We need to cooperate globally on epidemic preparedness and prevention in the same way we are cooperating globally to stop people from getting nuclear….

There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see….

That it's a worldwide thing that families are better off..

Part of the magic of economic growth is how you educate people, and the leading economies have to stay in front of that. From an economic point of vi….

You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, ….

Take agriculture, where we haven't done much, or sanitation; saying, "okay, we will be able to make a really huge effort there." It really energized ….