You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How 'bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn't cut that. And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic.