You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.