I am not a huge gamer. My son knows a LOT more than I do about what is cool on Xbox. I played Halo but the sports games that the whole family can use are the things I use the most. I threw the javelin very very far!

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.

If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.

The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.

You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.