Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

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

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

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.

The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.