Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?'

About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it…

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about…

We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast... It will be some finite number of years, and I don't know the number - before ou…

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the…

In my first year I was taught about the slide rule. They said, 'The slide rule is important. Without it you can do nothing. The slide rule is the modern weapon…

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.