Bill Gates quotes - page 2

in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you. (Bill Gates)
Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.
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Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down.
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I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
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Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.
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Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam.
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(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
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There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.
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Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
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If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
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We're no longer in the days where every program is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really knew what they were doing. (Bill Gates)
I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
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Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
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If you give people tools, and they use their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
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Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
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To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime.
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The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
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About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
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Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it - at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air.
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DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created. (Bill Gates)
The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.
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The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past.
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I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.
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Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.
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