I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there are no real preparations. That, if it got out and spread, would be a larger number.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification.

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?