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The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.

I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

I'm not Bill Gates. And I'm not Ted Turner.

If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates.

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field.

We celebrate the Bill Gateses of the world. We're not mad at Bill Gates.