Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How 'bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn't cut that. And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.

I spend a lot of time reading.