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“Depuis vingt ans, je vis une aventure incroyable. Tout a commencé dans la cour de Harvard, où j’étais alors en deuxième année. Avec mon ami Paul Allen, nous étions plongés dans la description d’un ordinateur en kit que publiait la revue Popular Electronics: le premier véritable ordinateur personnel. Ni Paul ni moi ne savions exactement à quoi il pourrait servir mais, ce jour-là, nous avons eu la certitude qu’il allait tout changer : notre vie et le monde de l’informatique.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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The three magic elements - the opportunity for breakthroughs, to play a unique role, and to work with smart people on interesting problems (the things I loved about my job at Microsoft ) - are all present in the foundation work that I do.
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“[I]t's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, "Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough." It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, "Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it."”

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"Bill Gates Joins the iPad's Army of Critics. Steve Jobs Couldn't Care Less." CBS MoneyWatch (11 February 2010) http://cbsnews.com/news/bill-gates-joins-the-ipads-army-of-critics-steve-jobs-couldnt-care-less
2000s

“Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it — at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air.”

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"The PC Era Is Just Beginning" in Business Week (22 March 2005) http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2005/tc20050322_7219.htm
2000s

“The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.”

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Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)

“He [Steve Jobs] showed me the boat he was working on … and talked about how he's looking forward to being on it, even though we both knew there was a good chance that wouldn't happen.”

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cbsnews.com http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-gates-on-steve-jobs-we-grew-up-together/
July 2013

“I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them.
Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill. But the mystery and the beauty of the world is overwhelmingly amazing, and there's no scientific explanation of how it came about. To say that it was generated by random numbers, that does seem, you know, sort of an uncharitable view. I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.”

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Response when he was asked whether he believed in God, at his interview with the Rolling Stone Magazine http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/bill-gates-the-rolling-stone-interview-20140313#ixzz367A061i0. March 27, 2014.
The Rolling Stone Interview (2014)

“[RAM1989]I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64 K to 640 K felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.”

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1989 speech on the history of the microcomputer industry. http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/1989%20Bill%20Gates%20Talk%20on%20Microsoft.html
1980s

“It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.”

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Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in 80 Microcomputing (1980)
1980s

“Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.”

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Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in "Gates, Buffett a bit bearish" CNET News (2 July 1998) http://archive.is/20130102062335/http://news.com.com/2100-1023-212942.html
1990s

“[640K] 640 K ought to be enough for anybody.”

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Often attributed to Gates in 1981. Gates considered the IBM PC's 640 KB program memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_memory#640_KB_barrier a significant breakthrough over 8-bit systems that were typically limited to 64 KB, but he has denied making this remark. Also see the 1989 and 1993 remarks above.
: 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 … I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640 K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.
:* Gates (19 January 1996), " Career Opportunities in Computing—and More http://groups.google.com/group/alt.folklore.computers/msg/99ce4b0555bf35f4". Bloomberg Business News
: Do you realize the pain the industry went through while the IBM PC was limited to 640 K? The machine was going to be 512 K at one point, and we kept pushing it up. I never said that statement — I said the opposite of that.
:* Gates talks, https://web.archive.org/web/20110202030010/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/gatesivu.htm, February 20, 2011, U.S. News & World Report, August 20, 2001, October 8, 2014 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/gatesivu.htm,
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“Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' — that might be spam.”

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BBC News (24 January 2004) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3426367.stm
2000s

“I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years.”

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Remarks at COMDEX (November 1994), attributed in Kommunikation erstatter transport (2009) by Karl Krarup et al.
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“Gary Kildall was one of the original pioneers of the PC revolution. He was a very creative computer scientist who did excellent work. Although we were competitors, I always had tremendous respect for his contributions to the PC industry. His untimely death was very unfortunate and he and his work will be missed.”

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Bill Gates, quoted in The Computer Chronicles. "Special Edition: Gary Kildall." (1995)
1990s

“In the last 20 years, thanks to your hard work, polio has declined by 99 percent. In 1988, 350,000 people got polio. By 2008, the number was down to just a couple of thousand.”

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http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Speeches/2009/01/Bill-Gates-Rotary-International "Bill Gates - Rotary International" Bill & Melinda Gates foundation (21 January 2009)
Regarding Bill And Melinda Gates' Polio Efforts (2009)

“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 fished out listings of their operating system.”

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Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)

“It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.”

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TIME magazine Vol. 149, No. 2 (13 January 1997) http://web.archive.org/web/20000619011644/http://www.time.com/time/gates/gates2.html
1990s

“Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.”

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On his use of YouTube to watch videos. "Bill Gates on ...the Competition" in The Wall Street Journal (19 June 2006); also quoted in "Bill Gates' piracy confession" http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/2803 at ComputerWorld.com
2000s

“Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be.”

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On Blu-ray. interview The Daily Princetonian (14 Oct 2005) https://archive.is/20130628234752/www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/10/14/news/13474.shtml
2000s

“You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. You've got to want to be in this incredible feedback loop where you get the world-class people to tell you what you're doing wrong…”

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Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)

“We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast… It will be some finite number of years, and I don't know the number — before our doom comes.”

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Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time (1997) by Daniel Gross ISBN 0471196533
1990s

“There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. … I'm saying we don't do a new version to fix bugs. We don't. Not enough people would buy it. You can take a hundred people using Microsoft Word. Call them up and say "Would you buy a new version because of bugs?" You won't get a single person to say they'd buy a new version because of bugs. We'd never be able to sell a release on that basis.”

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Focus Magazine No. 43 (23 October 1995) http://www.cantrip.org/nobugs.html 
1990s

“I wish I wasn't … There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.”

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On being the world's richest man, in an online advertising conference in Redmond, Washington, as quoted in The Guardian (5 May 2006) http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1768129,00.html
2000s

“One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity…We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world”

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The Road Ahead (1995)

“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.”

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Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)

“To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination — and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.”

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Apple company event (October 1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3FUOCRXPo
1980s

“Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.”

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2000s

“The moral systems of religion, I think, are superimportant. We've raised our kids in a religious way; they've gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes to and I participate in. I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.”

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“First we've got population. Now, the world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that (forecast) by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent, but there we see an increase of about 1.3”

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TED, February 2010

“Just giving people devices has a really horrible track record. You really have to change the curriculum and the teacher. And it's never going to work on a device where you don't have a keyboard-type input. Students aren't there just to read things. They're actually supposed to be able to write and communicate. And so it's going to be more in the PC realm—it's going to be a low-cost PC that lets them be highly interactive.”

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A Conversation With Bill Gates About the Future of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/article/A-Conversation-With-Bill-Gates/132591/ in The Chronicle of Higher Education (25 June 2012)
2000s