We're going to try to do more to communicate the value of activation to customers in addition to making the process simpler and more consistent.

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.

Negativity only breeds more negativity. I wish to not allow it to enter my heart and not for it to take harbour. It may make itself a home and never leave.

Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?'His father did look up at that. 'I didn't raise another man's son, ' he said sharply. 'I raised my own.

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

I love the show 'Damages!' I am truly addicted.

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.