Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

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

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

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

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.

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.