It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.

I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.

You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.

Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.