You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.

Philanthropy is fun and fulfilling.

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?

You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.

Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free

Even when I wrote Basic myself the day before I burned it into a computer I wasn't making design changes. I didn't have a testing team. I did all the testing myself. And there was no project methodology or schedule that, there was the notion of coming to a close means testing a lot at the end and making very few changes.

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