In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you'd be more likely to slow things down.

Leaders are those who empower others.

There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.

People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA [personal digital assistant] as we are.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.