Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into.

Being maniacal about something is very helpful.

Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.