A company’s ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
Anything that someone’s interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you’re interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all.
I spend a lot of time reading.
If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.
The greatest thing you can do for your competition – hire poorly.
The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.
I am not a huge gamer. My son knows a LOT more than I do about what is cool on Xbox. I played Halo but the sports games that the whole family can use are the things I use the most. I threw the javelin very very far!
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
People everywhere love Windows.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
What I do best is share my enthusiasm.
Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we’ve really redefined the IT industry to be something that’s about a tool for individuals.
Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we’d want to get involved.
Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you’re doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you’d just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.