The Internet will help achieve friction free capitalism by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other – Bill Gates

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

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 – Bill Gates

“Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time – Bill Gates

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don’t just think, yes my country is doing well, but you think about the world at large – Bill Gates

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight – Bill Gates