I may not be the top student in my university, but all the top students are working at my company, Microsoft.
If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing.
I read an hour almost every night. It’s part of falling asleep.
The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that’s one of the greatest programming feats I’ve ever had a chance to work on.
If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.
Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.
Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.
The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.
My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.
If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it’s good. It starts to balance out.
If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.
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.