When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We’re no longer in the days where every program is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
So the vision of Microsoft is pretty simple. It changed a couple years ago. For the first 25 years of the company,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have… — Bill Gates Copy Share
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the… — Bill Gates Copy Share
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. — Bill Gates Copy Share
We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that… — Bill Gates Copy Share
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting… — Bill Gates Copy Share
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering. — Bill Gates Copy Share
Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great. — Bill Gates Copy Share
Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate… — Bill Gates Copy Share
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.… — Bill Gates Copy Share
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. — Bill Gates Copy Share
I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share
At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to… — Bill Gates Copy Share
Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them. — Bill Gates Copy Share
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