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"And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there."
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"Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume."

"In order to be more successful than the other people, you have to do something that otherpeople are not doing."

"If there seems no answers then create and apply them."

"If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude."

"Innovators with global thinking find more viewing spots that the rest; therefore, they can solve problems in unconventional ways."

"We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press."

"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet."

"We have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they're workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we're on the right track."

"Innovation gives life to imagination by providing that it is true, real, and useful."

"I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid."
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"What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'"

"I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative."

"We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good."

"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential."

"Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world."

"Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish."

"All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders."
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