Think Of Business As A Good Game.

If People Had Understood How Patents Would Be Granted When Most Of Today's Ideas Were Invented, And Had Taken Out Patents, The Industry Would Be At A Complete Standstill Today.

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 In A Very Significant Way.

With Windows 8, Microsoft Is Trying To Gain Market Share In What Has Been Dominated By The Ipad-type Device. But A Lot Of Those Users Are Frustrated. They Can't Type. They Can't Create Documents.

When Paul Allen And I Started Microsoft Over 30 Years Ago, We Had Big Dreams About Software. We Had Dreams About The Impact It Could Have.

American Dependence On Oil Has Only Gone Up As We've Gone Through Various Crises And Not Invested In R&d.