"I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill."

"Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once."

"We [Microsoft] don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference."

"What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'"

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality."

"Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror."

"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."

"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."

"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."