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