I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.

If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.

Often you have to rely on intuition.

We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's created the worldwide software industry that... that is so very competitive and moving so quickly.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.