The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.

People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA [personal digital assistant] as we are.

You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.