Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.

Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.

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.