"We 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?'"

"Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders."

"I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06."

"I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people."

"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."

"I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that."

"The canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear — an essential principle for the reflective life."