“There are people who don’t like women holding power.”

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I’d beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, ‘Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.’

He [Barak Obama]’s a guy from Chicago. He doesn’t know what the hell to do. He’s got a big pipe with a hole in it.

You know what’s really frightening? You (Jon Stewart) actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary, but it’s true. You’ve got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night and they can vote.

I think cable television is wobbling and I think people aren’t going to forget what happened – because you had a situation where one of the candidates was hated, not just disagreed with, hated.

We live in an age where truth really doesn’t matter anymore.

If I’m the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, ‘Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you’re not going to get another nickel in federal funds.

It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life.

It’s an excellent movie. Really excellent.

I’m not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

Hitler and Joseph Goebbels understood that if you say something loud and long enough many people will believe it.

Saddam Hussein… I believe is involved with this World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing. I believe that you’re going to find out that money from Iraq flowed in and helped this happen.

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

And I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was – it was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks, primarily black patronship.

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don’t care.

Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.

This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places – as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform.

Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

Our mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is really a look back to the very creation of Microsoft.

Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.

There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).

What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don’t think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.