Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other company, especially if the other company has more people on the project and they're entrenched and people are saying that we don't have a chance of getting in there and... and doing well.

How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

Microsoft is always two years away from failure.