Quotes by Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Bill Gates

American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist

Lived from: 1955 -

Category: Business and entrepreneurs Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 28 october 1955

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  • Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking how they might slow the thing down.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
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  • Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
    Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY
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  • Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
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  • Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
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  • Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' [...] Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover.
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  • Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.
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  • Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
    The Road Ahead (1995)
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  • Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
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  • Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
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  • The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
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  • The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
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  • 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.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
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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.
    The Road Ahead
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  • The future of advertising is the Internet.
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  • The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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  • The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
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  • The microprocessor is a miracle.
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  • The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.
    BusinessWeek, 26 November 1984
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  • The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
    The Road Ahead p. 265
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  • The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
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