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.

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We will make our products work out of the box.

We will make our products work out of the box.

Our company has to be a company that enables its people.

Our company has to be a company that enables its people.

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What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question...

Accessible design is good design.

Accessible design is good design.

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And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came...

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I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's...

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

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We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in...

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All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get...

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I...

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I...

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

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I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.

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The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what...

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I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything....

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every...

Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every...

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Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it...

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but...

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but...

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I...

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I...

We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry...

We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry...