I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
Our teachers deserve better feedback.
Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.
Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.
Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.
I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'
The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.
I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.
I'm a geek.
If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
