personal Quotes

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

I was announcing to the public, in 2006, that I'd be leaving Microsoft in a couple of years and focusing full-time on the foundation. That was the time at which we went back to New York and Warren [Buffett] announced... ...