It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.

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.

Some of my friends are not being a friend of me...

Tarot is a practice rich with history and cultural knowledge. It is a science of the mind.

Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.