I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.

I've found three or four things that are quite interesting to me that I'm focused on. That's been fun.The Clippers is obviously one of them.

The company [Microsoft] really has to chart a direction in mobile devices. Because if you're going to be mobile-first, cloud-first you really do need to have a sense of what you're doing in mobile devices. I had put the company on a path. The board as I was leaving took the company on a path by buying Nokia, they kind of went ahead with that after I told them I was going to go. The company, between me and the board, had taken that sort of view. Satya, he's certainly changed that. He needs to have a clear path forward. But I'm sure he'll get there.

We're very focused in on outcomes for government with respect to the amount of tax that goes in and the amount of expenditures that go out.

It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.