It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

• Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
• I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
• I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
• I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
• Life is not fair get used to it.
• I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?
• Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
• People everywhere love Windows.
• We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.