Philanthropy should be voluntary.
Training the workforce of tomorrow with today’s high schools is like trying to teach kids about today’s computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.
In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.
Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world’s poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.
Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
While we’re all very dependent on technology, it doesn’t always work.
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.
I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.
Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.
Be nice to nerds, they’ll probably be your boss one day.
The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That – that’s just justice.
If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.
Does the e-mail say it’s about ‘enlargement’ – that might be spam.
We’ll have infinite bandwidth in a decade’s time.
Stolen’s a strong word. It’s copyrighted content that the owner wasn’t paid for.
The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.
Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.
If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.
While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle’s ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
Bridge is the king of all card games.