From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.