Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana – 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

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

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

If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act – Bill Gates

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks – Bill Gates