I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’ – Bill Gates

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

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that – Bill Gates

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot – Bill Gates

Patience is a key element of success – 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