I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

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.

If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working for it.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !

But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.

I just like to walk around New York, just put my iPod on and walk around.

I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.

Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.

Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.