We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

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.

O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own story is a life worthy to be read

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

While playing golf today, I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

They always say 'youth is wasted on the young' - there's something to that.

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.