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

♦ You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both – Bill Gates

♦ Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself – Bill Gates

♦  To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks – 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

♦ Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight – 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 geek means you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble – Bill Gates

♦  It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure – Bill Gates

♦  Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose – Bill Gates