Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.

Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts

I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.

Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.

At Microsoft, they all rock back and forth like Gates, they wear the same glasses, they have the same hair style. Maybe they grow them in tanks.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.