When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen – Bill Gates

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

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes – Bill Gates

About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, 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 – Bill Gates

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important – Bill Gates

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it – Bill Gates