#oft

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

#brilliant #come #i #ideas #image

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy. ↗

— Bill Gates

#been #beg #binary #bow #coming

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. ↗

— Bill Gates

#competitors #fantastic #free #free software #google

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#during #first #great #had #here

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. ↗

— Bill Gates

#like #likes #microsoft #no-one #pc

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#empowering #get #i #important #involved

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#anything #because #deeply #every #except

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. ↗

— Bill Gates

#money #often #private #risks #take

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#macintosh #makes #microsoft #products

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#attracted #because #careers #come #compensation