Melinda [Gates] has been my partner in raising the kids and I went from before I met her, intentionally having an unbalanced life, to having a more balanced life with all sorts of fun things that she and I do together.

Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.

Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Certain teams are more careful in what they write. They generate less bugs. You can know that but it still doesn't mean there might be there might not be one bug that would be bad to ship the product with.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Success is a lousy teacher.