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

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

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

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.

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

Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.

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.

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.

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

People everywhere love Windows.

It's possible - you can never know - that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

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

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.'

One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it. 

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.

There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

I don't think culture is something you can describe

If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.