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Bill Gates
October 28, 1955 -
Nationality: American
Category: Businessman
Subcategory: American Businessman

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.

   

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

   

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

   

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

   

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

   

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

   

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

   

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.

   

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

   

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.

   

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

   

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

   

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

   

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.

   

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

   

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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