Ford shared this vision. We are inviting more players to join in.

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.

Since I'm not a seller of the stock, I don't really care what it is today.

No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company.

From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to the company's future. Because innovation in the future will either be from the cloud out to all devices, or from devices as supported by software in the cloud. I think it's important for Microsoft to participate both ways.