With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !

I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society.

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.

The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment.

We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.