Bill Gates Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

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

  Bill Gates

  Success, Trust, Leadership

• The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

  Bill Gates

  Computer, Problem, Born

• I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Age, Library

• The Internet? We are not interested in it

  Bill Gates

  Microsoft, Computer, Internet

• If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Technology, Car

  Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.173, John Wiley & Sons

• Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Intellectual

  Attributed to Bill Gates in "The Wall Street Journal", December 29, 2011.

• When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, People, Important

• We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

  Bill Gates

  Dream, Technology, Finishing

• If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

  Bill Gates

  Art, Science, Thinking

• A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Average, Computer

• The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.

  Bill Gates

  Live Your Life, Computer, Humans

  Source: thesource.com

• About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Years

  Bill Gates' Speech at the University of Washington, archive.fortune.com. July 20, 1998.

• DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

  Bill Gates

  Dna, Computer, Biology

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The road ahead”

• The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Sick, Killing Each Other

• Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

  Bill Gates

  Home, Office, Vision

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Notebook, Technology, Matter

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.36, Hachette UK

• It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.

  Bill Gates

  Positive Thinking, Laughing, Computer

• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Money, Business

• 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 I fished out listings of their operating systems.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Leadership, Work

  Interview with Suzanne Lammers, programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Simple, Hands, People

  "Unleash the Billionaire Within: Learn the Mastermind Principles for Acquiring Wealth Beyond Imagination". Book by Esmonde Holowaty, p. 298, 2011.

• Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.

  Bill Gates

  Games, Bridges, Lasts

• This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Tools, Pace

• (Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child with a cardboard carton and a box of crayons create a spaceship with cool control panels, or listened to their improvised rules, such as "Red cars can jump all others," then you know that this impulse to make a toy do more is at the heart of innovative childhood play. It is also the essence of creativity.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Fun, Heart

• Two years from now, spam will be solved.

  Bill Gates

  Stupid, Years, Two

  "Tech’s Most Dubious Promises, From Bill Gates to Elon Musk". www.wired.com. July 26, 2017.

• I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Littles, Computer

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