Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.

Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.

I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics.