There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.

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.

There's isn't any slight of hand in Spirituality, everything you desire is right there for you to see.

Life is a lie and only I know the absolute truth.

I don't know the perfect thing to say when a person is hurting but I do know the last thing they want to hear are reasons they shouldn't be hurting.

The death of dogma is the birth of reality.

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.

I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."

Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.

Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found.

What we prepare for is what we shall get