You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

You've got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.