Quotes by Gates
1. If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
2. Its fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
3. Life is not fair; get used to it.
4. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
5. 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.
6. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
7. Patience is a key element of success.
8. Let's face it; the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey
9. We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
10. Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you, find yourself.
11. The best way to prepare to be a programmer is to write programs and to study great programs that other people have written.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.
16. We are always saying to our self... we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works... so long as you are using your existing software... you don't pay us anything at all. So we're only paid for breakthroughs
17. I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.
18. Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.
19. We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software... that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.
