I Loved Every Minute Of My Time

If You Look At Companies With Upside Potential, Twitter's Right There. They've Established A Brand In A World Where It's Extremely Difficult To Establish A Brand. It's A Global Brand, People Recognize It, People Want To Let You Know What Their Twitter Handles Are, Etc.

One Might Ask The Question: Is The Mortgage Interest Deduction Doing A Better Job, A Worse Job, If It's Supposed To Promote Homeownership And Savings? Because Home Ownership Is The Biggest Form Of Savings In This Country. Different People Will Look At That Data And Draw Different Conclusions, But That's Just An Example Of The Kind Of Thing You Can Pull Out Of Usafacts And Develop A Point Of View About.

I Loved Every Minute Of My Time At Microsoft, But I Had Always Envisioned Having Another Phase Of Life Just Because I Thought That Would Be Interesting. It Had Never Been My Plan To Work Until I Literally Didn't Want To Do Anything And Then Hang It Up.

The One Thing That I Think Separates Microsoft From A Lot Of Other People Is We Make Bold Bets. We're Persistent About Them, But We Make Them. A Lot Of People Won't Make A Bold Bet. A Bold Bet Doesn't Assure You Of Winning, But If You Make No Bold Bets You Can't Continue To Succeed. Our Industry Doesn't Allow You To Rest On Your Laurels Forever. I Mean, You Can Milk Any Great Idea. Any Idea That Turns Out To Be Truly Great Can Be Harvested For Tens Of Years. On The Other Hand, If You Want To Continue To Be Great, You've Got To Bet On New Things, Big, Bold Bets.

My Children - In Many Dimensions They're As Poorly Behaved As Many Other Children, But At Least On This Dimension I've Got My Kids Brainwashed: You Don't Use Google, And You Don't Use An Ipod.