The main thing that drew me to him was that he was a beautiful writer, not just the clarity but the aptness of expression.

He's obviously a conservative man but in disposition, not in some kind of ideological way.

The profession is designed to help the court by making sure that the best possible arguments - not misleading arguments, not arguments that stretch a point, not arguments that hide precedents - but that the best possible arguments are presented, ... That's the business we're in. It's very much like if you were a doctor. Do you only cure people who, when they're cured, will lead their lives as you were going to lead them?

We expect some investors to look for clarity on what Microsoft's dividend plan looks like going forward.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

It's a big tree, but it has ramified and exfoliated, ... would be an enormous disruption.