in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

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.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Information work is thinking work.

Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.

My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.