Bill Gates
Co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft, and founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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.
We're no longer in the days where everything 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 know what they were doing.
If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine. If you’re interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. … Let’s be realistic, who came up with "File/Edit/View/Help"? Do you want to go back to the original Mac and think about where those interface concepts came from?
I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years.
I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.
Well, it seems to me that he did have an education to get there. It happened to be mine, not his.
Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.
It's a business I don't know anything about, but I admire Bill Gates enormously. I know him individually, and I think he's incredible in business.
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.
The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] 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.
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination — and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.
"You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that." quoted in (February 2010)
Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be.
There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.
One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
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 irritating.
Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business?
It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.