Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

I know that historically our foundation has had great relations with all the administrations.[Bill] Clinton administration did a lot of outreach. The greatest rise in U.S. foreign aid was under the [George] Bush administration, that's where we got the AIDS initiative, which is called PEPFAR.

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

The UK is a very international country.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.