Developers, developers, developers...

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.

Believing in your potential and calling upon your courage to change will fuel your professional growth and help you accomplish goals.

Treat destiny as the brainchild of passage.

Being on the road is no excuse for having a poor diet. I don't like fast food, but if I have to, I'll order three plain grilled chicken sandwiches and throw out the buns.

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.

By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.

The mind is stronger than any muscle.