I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can’t type. They can’t create documents.

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

If I’ve got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to call them up, and I’m going to say, ‚Hey, here’s what’s going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn’t expect it. Now it’s going to take me some more time to get you what you need.‘ But I’m going to do that upfront.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

People everywhere love Windows.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

One must steer, not talk.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.