I don't think anyone has done a [tablet] product that I see customers wanting.

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.

Never let anybody destroy your own ability to create happiness.Its the only thing that will let you succeed when you feel everything else has let you down.Peace and love.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is accepting and neutralizing the fear with the power of love.

But she wasn’t the only one who was suffering, and sometimes there is comfort in the knowledge that you don’t suffer alone, sad as that is.

I cross-examined him and he double-crossed me but that's fine

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill.

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

I'm a private kind of person.

The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.

Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.