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Bill Gates Quotes
«The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things lik»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Vision
| Keywords:
Information Age, lik, microprocessor, software, text, The Vision
«Certainly, we are trying to preserve all of that culture, and get the advantages of being a large company with a broad product line, with stability, worldwide presence, great support, and yet have the advantages that a small software company has.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Company,
Culture
| Keywords:
advantages, broad, product line, software, stability, worldwide
«Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| Keywords:
aircraft, by-line, code, measuring, programming
«So the vision of Microsoft is pretty simple. It changed a couple years ago. For the first 25 years of the company, it was a personal computer on every desk and in every home. And it was a very good vision; very rare for a company to be able to stick with something like that for 25 years. The reason we changed it was simply that it became acceptable. . . . And so as we stepped back and looked at what we were trying to do with the programming model, turning the Internet into the fabric for distributed computing, getting your information to replicate in a very invisible way so that it was available to you everywhere, thinking of this programming model spanning all the different devices, we changed to the mission statement we have now, which is empowering people through great software anytime, any place and on any device.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Internet
| Keywords:
acceptable, become available, compute, computer program, computing, computing device, desk, device, devices, distributed, empowering, fabric, Microsoft, mission, mission statement, personal computer, personal computers, programming, replicate, replicates, replicating, software, spanning, statement, stepped, stick with, The Mission, The Vision
«I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.»
«The PC will continue to evolve. In fact, you'll think of it simply as a flat screen that will range from a wallet size device to a notebook, to a desktop, to a wall. And besides the size of the screen, the only other characteristic will be whether it»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| Keywords:
characteristic, desktop, device, flat, notebook, notebooks, range, screen, the screen
«The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.»
«I thought digital technology would eventually reverse urbanization, and so far that hasn't happened. But people always overestimate how much will change in the next three years, and they underestimate how much will change over the next 10 years.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| Keywords:
change over, overestimate, overestimated, reverse, underestimate, urbanization