You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone.

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.

Very often, we let little things spoil some of our most important treasures—our Moment, our Day, our Life.

Be true to yourself so you never regret anything you did.

The trust I have...for some people...comes down to how well I know them, and then it's a matter of my trusting them to do what I think they're going to do.

I don’t believe in coincidence or fateBut I know one thing for sureYour face was meant to beBurned into the deepest reachesOf my blackest memories.

As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation

As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

A man should make all he can, and give all he can.

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.