We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs..

There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer..

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so man….

We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here ….

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved..

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English..

Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able t….

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done th….

I didn't completed my University Education.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision..

Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded..

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved..

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 ri….

The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of say, three, and then have some….

Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfac….

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different..

The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realiz….

Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like... I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way….

For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria..

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software..

I think we knew that this would be just like raising the kids together, this would be a fun thing to do in partnership. And you know, we're so lucky ….