I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.

Married life is a simpler life. Who I spend my time with is established in advance.

My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person.

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.