Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.

I never knew true fear until I met pure evil. He wore a smile and a bow tie.

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

I wish my life were a movie and I could take it into the editing room and totally cut this part out. And some other parts. Some other parts definitely need to be cut.

you must never stop believing in yourself, because you were born to make a difference in this world

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened.

I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.