Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.- Bill Gates
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.
Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we have got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Until we are educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
There are people who do not like capitalism, and people who do not like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
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.
