Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates
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.
Bill Gates
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
Bill Gates
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates
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.
Bill Gates
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates
Life is not fair; get used to it.
Bill Gates
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Bill Gates
If I were a guy who just wanted to win, I would have already moved on to another arena. If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago
Bill Gates
But the government made some non-negotiable demands that were very surprising to us,
Bill Gates
