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Programming Quotes by Bill Gates

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Bill Gates describes software as a fast‑moving field where new ideas make creating programs tricky. He says competition keeps Microsoft alert and that many developers love the craft more than the money. He also points out that adding more people to a project does not always speed it up.

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There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

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640K ought to be enough for anybody.

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

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

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There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

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It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

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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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While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software…

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The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

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Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

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Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his…

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Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep…

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We decided that we wanted our developers to come with clear minds, not polluted by some other approach, to learn the way…

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Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done…

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We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working.…

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Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach…

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The message that personal computers can do neat things, that software is great stuff, that there's an exciting opportunity here and Microsoft…

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In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's…

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Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in…

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Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs,…

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Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and…

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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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Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep…

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About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As…

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Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other…

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The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components…

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So the vision of Microsoft is pretty simple. It changed a couple years ago. For the first 25 years of the company,…

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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

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When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

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You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.

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I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

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Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

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When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the…

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More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

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In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

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There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

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Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

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[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

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Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

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The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires…

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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.