Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.

The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.