I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

It's fantastic that Microsoft in the cloud space is one of very few companies that's got the critical mass, the particular emphasis on helping business customers get up to that cloud with all the unique requirements they have. It's very exciting.

The internet is just a passing fad.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.