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" No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO. "

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" Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people. "

" DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience. "

" The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. "

" I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups. "

" The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest. "

" The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol. "

" What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life. "

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

" Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading. "

" I get more spam than anyone I know. "

" The microprocessor is a miracle. "

" Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download. "

" Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. "

" I am results-oriented. "

" Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position. "

" Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year. "

" Our teachers deserve better feedback. "

" Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time. "

" Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. "

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" Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. "

" If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently? "

" Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it. "

" The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. "

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

" I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product. "

" Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. "

" In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in. "

" Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card. "

" Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. "