I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.

People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.

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