Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out..

Africa is on the rise..

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then..

Something like Windows is still an unbelievable asset but because the world is somewhat phone-centric, it's an asset that has to be managed very care….

The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids..

So not only are we saving lives now, we're creating the incentive for the breakthroughs that over the next generation will mean we can take AIDS, mal….

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously..

I'm cooler than you. WAAAY cooler..

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake..

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it..

Make it just like a Mac..

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before..

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing..

Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it..

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of..

I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make tha….

If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say '….

Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world.

I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much a….

From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, peop….

I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This ki….