The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.

America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U.S. has an amazing lead.

I am surprised that in various countries, whether it's the U.K. or the U.S., you see isolationist tendencies that would tend to work against the co-operation, whether it's climate change, immigration, innovation, helping the very poorest. Those are things where you want to think across country boundaries and see a win-win-type solution.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.

Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.