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 '….

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….

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….

The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they.….

I did not even finish my studies.

The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device..

The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age o….

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..

I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive..

The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2 levels], it was very innovative. It's le….

As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice..

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigatio….

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%..

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of havi….

Life's not fair, get over it!.

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man..

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information..

Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day..

We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to co….

Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now..