Microsoft is always two years away from failure.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.

If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.

Two years from now, spam will be solved.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

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.