Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.

I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.

Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.

I'm going to f---ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f---ing kill Google.

I don't think there is one size that fits all. I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop.

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' .

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.