A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.
Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
As for drugs – well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice...
More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.
Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?
We’re changing the world with technology.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
In programming when you’re making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.
Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.
In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.
The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It’s not a computation device, it’s not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It’s a window onto the world of information.
If I were down to the last dollar of my marketing budget, I’d spend it on PR!