Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency..

All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonab….

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society i….

Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing ….

Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster….

I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system..

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras….

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jo….

It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they sho….

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer..

I don't believe in creating dynastic wealth. I don't really believe that in a society that aspires to be meritocratic and that believes in equality o….

The Internet? We are not interested in it.

Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's….

You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint….

People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software busi….

The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really ….

With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people….

We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust).

The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for th….

I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opp….

Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the Un….