I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees.

(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it..

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software..

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New ….

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not..

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'….

Death is something we really understand extremely well..

If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential port….

If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a ….

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one..

What I do best is share my enthusiasm..

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody tol….

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole..

Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe..

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company..

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're too….

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive o….

Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen ….

Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in so….

To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly..

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering..