Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.
Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.
How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.
Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
Measles will always show you if someone isn’t doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.
I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.
Inspiration starts somewhere.
Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.
Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.
I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.
I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation’s future.
Today, the issue isn’t quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop.
I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.