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

Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.

Being maniacal about something is very helpful.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.