The Internet Was Designed For The PC. The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone

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.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs

Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better

You are a human being, not a human body.

What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

Live rather than talk. Talk is cheap and the tabloids scream about it every day.

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion.