Bill Gates Computer Quotes

#1. I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.

Bill Gates

#2. My current computer, in addition to 'DOS,' has 'Windows,' which is another invention of Bill Gates, designed as a security measure to thwart those users who are somehow able to get past DOS.

Dave Barry

#3. Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

Bill Gates

#4. Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.

Bill Gates

#5. No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

Bill Gates

#6. Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Larry Ellison

#7. It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.

Bill Gates

#8. I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he's had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold.

Fabrice Grinda

#9. 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 I fished out listings of their operating systems.

Bill Gates

#10. 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

#11. This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Bill Gates

#12. The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.

Bill Gates

#13. Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you're interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all.

Bill Gates

#14. If you think you're a really good programmer ... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming ... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

Bill Gates

#15. Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.

Bill Gates

#16. Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve who is, like the coolest guy in the world. And who is really doing things to make the world a better place?

Alex Gibney

#17. Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

Bill Gates

#18. Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.

Steve Wozniak

#19. It's a myth that Sanskrit is the best language for writing computer code. Patriotic Indians have spread this lie for many years - Bill Gates

Manu Joseph

#20. My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer.

Bill Gates

#21. Computer science ... jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer
or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

Bill Gates

#22. More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

Bill Gates

#23. Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

Bill Gates

#24. I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

Bill Gates

#25. In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Bill Gates

#26. I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.

Bill Gates

#27. The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.

Bill Gates

#28. The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

Bill Gates

#29. I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

Bill Gates

#30. The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.

Bill Gates

#31. When I say "miracle" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone, that are really quite miraculous. Most people would not have predicted them, and their effect has been very, very dramatic.

Bill Gates

#32. I suggested that someone grab Bill Gates and get him to install a new operating system, but apparently he's not a demon" At Reaver's eye roll she nodded. "Right? I was surprised too.

Larissa Ione

#33. Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

Bill Gates

#34. Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it's you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.

Kurt Vonnegut

#35. What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.

Bill Gates

#36. 3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

Bill Gates

#37. In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

Bill Gates

#38. It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.

Bill Gates

#39. The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Bill Gates

#40. DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

Bill Gates

#41. I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.

Bill Gates

#42. I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get.

Scott Adams

#43. I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.

Bill Gates

#44. If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Bill Gates