I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.

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.

Nature is a divine art.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.

If you listen too much to advice, you may wind up making other people's mistakes.

Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff?

Every place is determined by the characters who are there.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.