Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

Microsoft is always two years away from failure.

I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.