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| Bill Gates Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more "user-friendly" ... Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words "user-friendly" on the cover. | Computers |
| 2 | Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that | Software Development |
| 3 | The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system. | Software Development |
| 4 | If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. | Software Development |
| 5 | There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. | Software Development |
| 6 | We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast....It will be some finite number of years, and I don't know the number -- before our doom comes. | Software Development |
| 7 | We don't have the user centricity. Until we understand context, which is way beyond presence -- presence is the most trivial notion of context, just am I on this device or not; it doesn't say am I meeting with something, am I focused on writing something | Software Development |
| 8 | Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating | Software Development |
| 9 | Who could make the greatest difference in life? A compassionate social worker. Never lose them. | Software Development |
| 10 | As long as they are going to steal it [software], we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade. | Software Development |
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