“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”

“It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

I am results-oriented.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.