At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas, but the image is that they all come from the top , I’m afraid that’s not quite right – Bill Gates

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency – Bill Gates

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it – Bill Gates

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? – Bill Gates

Every day were saying, ‘How can we keep this customer happy?’ How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don’t, somebody else will – Bill Gates

We’re responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software. that’s something we brought to computing. And so it’s a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don’t get in the way of that dream – Bill Gates

It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not – Bill Gates

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

If something is expensive to develop, and somebody’s not going to get paid, it won’t get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not? – Bill Gates

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