Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.

I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

With polio, we've gone several years with no polio in all of Africa, but now with this we're having to go and mop up in that whole region, so it's a bit of a setback for polio. So in parallel we have to go back and get rid of those cases.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.