We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.