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.

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

Accessible design is good design.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

The world is changing, but so is Microsoft.

You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.

And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.

I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.

When you find your passion, turn a deaf ear to the naysayers and follow your dreams.

Those who will have studied the past that can define the future will succeed as other who don't will have misled full of lies.

Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

The only real security is the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.

As a queen I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?