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.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.