Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one – 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

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important – Bill Gates

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

Capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down – Bill Gates

There’s only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that’s already been written – Bill Gates