Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

I think we knew that this would be just like raising the kids together, this would be a fun thing to do in partnership. And you know, we're so lucky because we get to hire in very smart people. We get to partner with governments like the Canadian Development Organization - CIDA, USAID - tonnes of scientists doing this work. This is fascinating.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

Creativity allows people to be effective.