The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision.

If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.

If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.

We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin' Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure. Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running and trying to figure out how to use it.