... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

Software is more important than hardware.

The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.