You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner.

Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.

You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.