“In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation’s future.”

To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.

Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.

I work hard because I love my work.

If you’re too focused on your current business, it’s hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

I’m not an educator. I’m a learner.

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.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?

Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.

Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot’s wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

We’re now the results of our past actions, and in the future we’ll be the results of the actions we’re performing now.

I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

We have such an amazing future ahead of us.