In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

Innovation is the only way to win.

One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

You can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.