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.
Bill Gates

"If you can't make it good, make it look good."
BILL GATES

"How did you make the most technically unsuccessful product to be the biggest marketing success?"
Bill Gates

"We get a million calls a month saying, 'hey, this product is confusing.'"
BILL GATES

The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs. It's absolutely not. It's the stupidest reason to buy a new version I ever heard."
BILL GATES

"...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."
Bill Gates

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."
Bill Gates

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.
Bill Gates

"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier"
Bill Gates.

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.

"We decided that we wanted our developers to come with clear minds, not polluted by some other approach, to learn the way that we liked to develop software, and to put the kind of energy into it that we thought was key."

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" Bill Gates quotes

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

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.

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

640kb ought to be enough for anyone. -Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. -Bill Gates

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. -Bill Gates

"The Internet? We are not interested in it." -Bill Gates