Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. I was watching my daughter ride horses this weekend and that is also a bit old fashioned but fun. I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.

One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.