I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows.

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.

One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.

I like practicing law.

What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.

Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that [Adolf] Hitler has a gift of touching the important points, the essential points.

Today you have millions of Americans that feel left out and out of place in their own country, struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, called bigots because they hold on to traditional values.

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

A soul which is not clothed with the inner garment of Love should be ashamed of its existence.