The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.
If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that’s your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.
Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.
In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It’s very expensive.
In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.
The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.
Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.
I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
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.
I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.
I think there will be PCs at every price point.
Banking is necessary – banks are not.
I’m not a macroeconomics person.
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.