In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.

Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.

I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees

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.

I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it

I am results-oriented.

We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act