We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.