The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.