Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable.

I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.