There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.

Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.

If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings from people who've been out there and seen, "this tool is not going to work there, there's more of a problem here than you know." You should really get involved in that.

The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.