I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products.