"A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others."

"Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses."

"It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead."

"I have had all of the disadvantages required for success."

"Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence."

"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."