The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself – Bill Gates

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

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency – 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

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life – Bill Gates

Every day were saying, ‘How can we keep this customer happy?’ How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don’t, somebody else will – Bill Gates