I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people ….

One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created….

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I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock..

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss..

Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the….

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers..

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be ….

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways..

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promi….

Patience is a key element of success..

I've for some reason or other... never met Donald Trump..

That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new startup companies s….

The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid..

Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business..