America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U.S. has an amazing lead.

The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

[Warren Buffett ] met with all sorts of different groups about a lot of different things, but yes, he took the time, he listened and he wanted to understand about some of the different diseases and the strength of the American role in doing all these things.

Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

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.