When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an absolutely critical role. They're the ones who ah, write thousands and thousands of examples and make sure that it's going to work on all the different computers and printers and the different amounts of memory or networks that the software'11 be used in. That's a very hard job.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.