How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.