Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

Accessible design is good design.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

The world is changing, but so is Microsoft.

You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.

And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.

I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

Regardless of how distant your dreams may seem, every second counts.

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

There's those who talk about it. And there's those who BE about it!

Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.

Sometimes you just have to chop a zombie like a melon. What can I say?

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.