In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the ’90s.
Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.
Let’s face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.
I’m serious when I do my work. I’m not serious when I’m home with my kids.
Taxes are an investment in America.
The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.
I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.
Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn’t try to make every decision.
If you’re asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don’t. And certain things, like my freckles, they’re just there. I don’t do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often.
Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.
There’s only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that’s already been written.
I’ve said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.
You know, I’m a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard – in other words a netbook – will be the mainstream on that.
It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not.
Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.
It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they’ve had good educational institutions, and they’ve had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.
There’s nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn’t something that would be good to just pass to the children.
Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world’s enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.