When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

In most of these things our foundation is a co-funder, so I can say that a polio or an HIV vaccine, that I'm putting our resources behind it in a very big way and the U.S. government would be the best partner for those efforts.

I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.