People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

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.

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

Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.

Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today.