Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

If I had one dollar left, I'd spend it on PR

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.