Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they’ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down.

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.

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

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.