At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.
People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.
I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
I work hard because I love my work.
If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
