We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out there -it may be slow and clunky, but hardware improvements will bail you out. If you wait until it's running perfectly on the hardware already in the field, it will be obsolete before it's released. This philosophy built Microsoft and is the main reason Microsoft won the war IBM declared back in the OS/2 days.

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

Everything takes longer and costs more.