Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.

I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to their best performance and really throw themselves into it, you know, spend all these hours in there and ah, give it their... give it their best that optimism plays a role.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.