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

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 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.

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

The next time you get scared, get sacred!

Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Joy is not a thing, it is in us.

I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes.

Nobody as of today can produce any oral or written statement from me talking about changing the constitution.

We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.

I think a lot of the work I've done and a lot of the work I'm going to do in the future still ties to 9/11 and the fallout from it.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

Broadway, I have to memorize everything. You get one time to do it right.