It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.

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.

Life can only be as blissful or as miserable as we repeatedly interpret it to be.

Great fortune and peace of mind seldom live together.

I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don't ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.

A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.

We should have no concern for the environment, because, after the great flood with Noah, God promised that He would never ruin the earth again.

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

Whatever is making you so angry, it's time for you to give it to God and get over it.

It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.

The system is in place whereby if an umpire cries off, or both as was the case here, those umpires are to be replaced.

I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.