The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.

I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

Thinking about impact on children meant adding to the agenda, both the R&D agenda and the delivery agenda, but it's amazing news, even in the scale of other tragedies.

Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.

You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.