There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

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.

Infinity and Always.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win.

Relationships, like eyebrows, are better when there is space between them.

I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino.

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

I hear these people saying [Barack Obama]'s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it's crazy.

There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.