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Computer Quotes by Bill Gates

64 Computer quotes by Bill Gates

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A computer can tackle problems that never existed before. The industry is fiercely competitive, pushing new ideas fast. It also helps doctors model diseases and design medicines, showing that a personal computer is more than just a calculator. People often see computers as tools for games, but they can also solve real‑world challenges.

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Make it just like a Mac.

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640K ought to be enough for anybody.

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The Internet? We are not interested in it

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Two years from now, spam will be solved.

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No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

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Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

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

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

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

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

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Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

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Computers and games don't waste time - people do.

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

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

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3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices,…

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Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue,…

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In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

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So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to…

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I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I…

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

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I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer…

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If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in…

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The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic…

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The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have…

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I am super lucky. I've been in the area where things have been changing and been part of the digital revolution, the…

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It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em.…

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My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with…

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Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over…

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When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an…

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(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever…

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India just went 3 years with no cases [of polio]. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the…

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The dreams of the past - whether it was public TV being rolled into the classroom to teach Spanish, or the film…

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Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

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

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Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.

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This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

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The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.

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

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Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

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

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Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.

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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.…

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.

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…

At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to…

Software is more important than hardware.

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.