I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly.

It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.

Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future.

At Microsoft, we're investing heavily in security because we want customers to be able to trust their computing experiences, so they can realize the full benefits of the interconnected world we live in.

Make hiring a top priority.

I meet with Satya [Nadella] what probably amounts to four or five times a year - either to brainstorm something or just as a shareholder, we'll sit down and chat. That's always quite helpful for me and hopefully him in terms of thinking things through. I still have a number of friends and colleagues who occasionally want to brainstorm or chat about something, and that's always fun.

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.