When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.

Things like WhatsApp are a great example of success that others have had on Android, which we see as welcome innovation on the platform.

Good companies do whatever it takes to make sure apps are great and don't hesitate to add features.

We do have business relationships; we do licensing relationships, and people want to use Google services on top of Android. But in theory, you can use Android without Google.

I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved.

Nest is one vertical implementation of a set of smart products for the home. But we will support other people's smart products for the home.

Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better.

I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

Pretty much I want to be Steve Wozniak, who I decided I was at a young age and not change. I want to go back to school and get my college degree like I would have without Apple.I want to teach young kids like I would have without Apple. And part of it is I'm accessible. I'm open. And so many people e-mail me and get me. And as much as I can I try to answer people, listen to them, be polite and say yes.

It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper with fewer chips than last month? Can you design it with 79 chips instead of 80 chips?I had played this game so long that I had all these little tricks in my head that I can't even explain. Nothing was wasted; absolutely zero waste. I told this story recently to the Resource Recovery Association, recycling, and they loved to hear I didn't believe in waste.

Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.

What other people think about me is none of my business .

I cook a very exotic Hyderabadi rice dish called Hyderabadi biryani, which takes an entire day to cook, and the last time I cooked it was multiple years ago, but someday I'll cook it again.

Iran is a complete Windows country when it comes to the Office automation side.

Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.

Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.

Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honored to have been chosen to lead the company.

The principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.