We're very focused in on outcomes for government with respect to the amount of tax that goes in and the amount of expenditures that go out.

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.

But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.")

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

We do not fear death.We fear not having lived enough.

I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.

It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.

We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.

Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance.

If you want to succeed you must never stop learning, never stop trying and just keep being yourself. You are your own person. You make the choices in life that affect you.