Being Maniacal About Something Is Very Helpful.

(in Response To Java) Anybody Who Thinks A Little 9,000-line Program That's Distributed Free And Can Be Cloned By Anyone Is Going To Affect Anything We Do At Microsoft Has His Head Screwed On Wrong.

The Tablet Is Not Mainstream. Reading Off The Screen Is Not Mainstream.

The Challenge Here Is To Design A System Where Market Incentives, Including Profits And Recognition, Drive Those Principles To Do More For The Poor. I Like To Call This Idea Creative Capitalism, An Approach Where Governments, Businesses, And Nonprofits Work Together To Stretch The Reach Of Market Forces So That More People Can Make A Profit, Or Gain Recognition, Doing Work That Eases The World's Inequities.

People Who Feel The World Is Tilted Against Them Will Spawn The Kind Of Hatred That Is Very Dangerous For All Of Us. I Think It's A Healthy Sign That There Are Demonstrators In The Streets. They Are Raising The Question Of 'is The Rich World Giving Back Enough?'

If Somebody Is Working On A New Medicine, Computer Science Helps Us Model Those Things. We Have A Whole Group Here In Seattle Called The Institute For Disease Modelling That Is A Mix Of Computer Science And Math-type People, And The Progress We're Making In Polio Or Plans For Malaria Or Really Driven By Their Deep Insights.