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

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.

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

Learn the difference between a person that would have never given up on you and a person you pushed away.

I'm clean, I've always been clean.

But something's missing.

A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Here's a picture of me with REM. That's me in the corner.

The audience can feel the subtleties of the characters.

Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.

There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.