The mistakes that people will make are of much less importance than the mistake that management makes if it tells them exactly what to do.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

If it's not on the table, don't eat it off the floor.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

The only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart, and Miss Honeycut has a teeny tiny pea-sized one and it takes you nowhere you want to go.

An adult is just a child who started to rot

There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, "Waste not, want not."