Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.
If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Certain teams are more careful in what they write. They generate less bugs. You can know that but it still doesn’t mean there might be there might not be one bug that would be bad to ship the product with.
It’s pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they’re a tool of everyday life.
I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.
Often you just have to rely on your intuition.
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We’ve never wavered from that vision.
Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
You don’t go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it’s easier to write it from scratch.
We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we’re just getting started.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.
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 heard of Bill Gates.
Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that’s already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what’s called Object Oriented Programming.
Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, “Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?” People don’t forget that.