Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users.

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.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

Make peace with your past - so it won't spoil the present!

The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

Are you truly dirty if you don't take a shower every day? No, but you feel that way. It's the same with running. Just like a shower, running is part of my daily life.

September 11th does not justify ignoring the Constitution by creating broad new federal police powers. The rule of law is worthless if we ignore it whenever crises occur.

Somebody said they seen her heading out of town, now she ran away with a rodeo clown.