Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.
Bill Gates
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
Actor
Bridge Player
Computer Scientist
Entrepreneur
Financier
Inventor
Investor
Philanthropist
Programmer
Writer
Seattle
Washington
William Gates
William Henry Gates III
William Henry
III Gates
William Henry Bill Gates III
Littles
Program
Cloned
Anything
Anybody
Java
Little
Line
Distributed
Going
Head
Screwed
Thinking
Lines
Microsoft
Anyone
Affect
Wrong
Thinks
Free
Response
More quotes by Bill Gates
Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.
Bill Gates
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
Bill Gates
If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.
Bill Gates
Bioterrorism is like earthquakes, you should think in order of magnitudes. If you can kill 10 people that's a one, 100 people that's a two... Bioterrorism is the thing that can give you not just sixes, but sevens, eights and nines.
Bill Gates
My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
Bill Gates
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
Bill Gates
Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.
Bill Gates
Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.
Bill Gates
The greatest thing you can do for your competition - hire poorly.
Bill Gates
I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.
Bill Gates
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
Bill Gates
I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it
Bill Gates
Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.
Bill Gates
Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out beyond Internet search, but I think the expectations won't live up to reality.
Bill Gates
Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.
Bill Gates
Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.
Bill Gates
I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
Bill Gates
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.
Bill Gates
This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.
Bill Gates
When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.
Bill Gates
