"As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers."
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"With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?"
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"Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World."
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"Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously."
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"That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago."
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"I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic."
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"Sometimes it's very difficult to find fresh fruit on the road."
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"In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging."
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"I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile."
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"What is the best advice, business or otherwise, you've had and from whom? The best advice I've received came many years ago from my father. He told me that you should love whatever work you do, you should try to find something you truly enjoy. And I've been lucky through the years that the work I've been involved with has been challenging and for the most part, fun."
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