There won’t be anything we won’t say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.
Microsoft’s philosophy is to ‘do things better.’ And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.
Windows 95 was a nice milestone.
Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it’s getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.
People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.
The potential financial reward for building the ‘next Windows’ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.
When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one’s children. That distorts their life situation.
The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening.
The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.
Don’t wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.
Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future...
The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.
When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‘The government’s corrupt,’ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.
When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
Philanthropy is fun and fulfilling.