Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

“Childhood is a naturally unhappy period of our existence, Lillian. It was Walt Disney who invented the notion that it has to be happy, simply to make money.” 

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

“Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and that it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked and if it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that; it has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. That's an idea we're so familiar with, whether we subscribe to it or not, that it's kind of odd to think what it actually means, because really what it means is 'Here is an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not. Why not? - because you're not!” 

“First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.” 

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us.'

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.

“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.”

Imagination is the highest form of research.

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

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 future of advertising is the Internet.

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

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.