It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not – Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana – Bill Gates

If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected – Bill Gates

Life is not fair, get used to it – Bill Gates

Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room – Bill Gates

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? – Bill Gates