The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.

It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].