It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.