Bill Gates quotes

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

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.

Bill Gates

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

Bill Gates

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

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If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

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Life is not fair, get used to it.

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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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Patience is a key element of success.

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DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

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People everywhere love Windows.

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Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

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If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

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We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

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We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

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Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.

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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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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

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The best way to prepare to be a programmer is to write programs and to study great programs that other people have written.

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In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

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Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

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Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

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Hey, I never told anyone to buy my stock! Besides, no one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year if you check, you'll see that that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

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I have 100 billion dollars. You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime. Tell you what, I'll buy your right arm for a million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm.

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As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.

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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top. I'm afraid that's not quite right.

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Capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.

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I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, yes my country is doing well, but you think about the world at large.

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I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.

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