Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

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.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.