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.

When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, "My God!" No king ever had anything like I have in my grocery store today.

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

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

I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago.

The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)