Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so irritating – Bill Gates

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved – 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

If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected – Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana – 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