I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

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.

Love yourself, even a little bit each day, and your life will bloom into infinite joy.

Where there is knowledge, the rooms arefurnished with valuable, beautiful things.(GNB)

Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Some people would rather die than think.

I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you?

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.