Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.