I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

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

Patience is a key element of success.

If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!

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

When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.