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“The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.”
―Bill Gates

Source/Notes:
Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)

“Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking how they might slow the thing down.”
―Bill Gates

Source/Notes:
Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)

“Before Paul and I started the company, we had been involved in some large-scale software projects that were real disasters. They just kept pouring people in, and nobody knew how they were going to stabilize the project. We swore to ourselves that we would do better.”
―Bill Gates

Source/Notes:
Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)

“The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.”
―Bill Gates

Source/Notes:
p. 265 in hardcover edition, corrected in paperback - The Road Ahead (1995)

“The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.”
―Bill Gates

“People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.”
―Bill Gates

“[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.”
―Bill Gates

“What if Columbus had been told, Chris, baby, don't go now. Wait until we've solved our number-one priorities - war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred....”
―Bill Gates

“Often you have to rely on your intuition.”
―Bill Gates

“Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' [...] Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover.”
―Bill Gates

“I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.”
―Bill Gates

“We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.”
―Bill Gates

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Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Born: October 28, 1955 (age 62)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Businessman

Bio: William Henry Bill Gates III is an American business magnate, computer programmer and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.

American technology writers

Born on October 28

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