The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.

As a global company, our future growth and success requires that we constantly look at ways to improve our ability to serve customers worldwide.

As a shareholder I have expressed my frustration with not getting more information about revenue and margins from the cloud.

In terms of the public positioning of the company, Satya's [Nadella] done a very good job. He sort of pivoted in a way that I don't think would have been possible for me to do even if I'd seen it that way, to really talk about this mobile-first, cloud-first world.

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

Everyone likes to differentiate between business and consumers but I don't see the difference really. Most people are people. I get personal and business mail and I have one set of contacts from my life. I don't want to manage two sets. I want one view of my world.