The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

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

Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

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

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.

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.

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

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

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.

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

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity. 

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

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

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

People everywhere love Windows.