Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don’t evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, ’how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?
This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies.
The best teacher is very interactive.
Philanthropy should be voluntary.
Training the workforce of tomorrow with today’s high schools is like trying to teach kids about today’s computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.
In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.
Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world’s poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.
Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
While we’re all very dependent on technology, it doesn’t always work.
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.
I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.
Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.
Be nice to nerds, they’ll probably be your boss one day.
The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That – that’s just justice.
If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.
Does the e-mail say it’s about ‘enlargement’ – that might be spam.
We’ll have infinite bandwidth in a decade’s time.
Stolen’s a strong word. It’s copyrighted content that the owner wasn’t paid for.
The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.