Bill Gates citations

“Les outils utilisés par les professionnels de l'informatique doivent élargir les capacités humaines en automatisant des tâches à faible valeur ajoutée et en aidant les individus à donner du sens à des données complexes.”

“Les trois éléments magiques - l'opportunité de faire des percées, jouer un rôle unique et travailler avec des personnes intelligentes sur des problèmes intéressants (les choses que j'aimais dans mon emploi chez Microsoft ) - sont tous présents dans le travail que je fais dans la fondation.”

“Choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”

“If you're born poor it's not your fault, but if you die poor it's your fault.”

“I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.”

“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”

“I studied every thing but never topped…. But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees”

“If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.”

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

“Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.”

“We are in the end game, I'm optimistic that we will be successful. I'm personally very committed”

“Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”

“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”

“In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.”

“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”

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

“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”

“Life's not fair, get over it!”

“Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.”

“in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you”

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

“The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.”

“Succes is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose.”

“Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.”

“If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine. If you’re interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. … Let’s be realistic, who came up with "File/Edit/View/Help"? Do you want to go back to the original Mac and think about where those interface concepts came from?”

“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.”

“About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.”

“What we're saying to people is that every idea about ease-of-use, we can develop in software, for the PC, without asking them to buy new hardware, without asking them to throw away their old applications.”