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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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“"You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that." quoted in”

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February 2010
http://blogs.bnet.com/corporate-strategy/?p=101
2000s

“Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.”

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"Why I Hate Spam" in Microsoft PressPass (2003) http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/ofnote/06-23wsjspam.asp
2000s

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

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

“The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.”

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BusinessWeek, 26 November 1984
1980s

“One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.”

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1998 a memo to the Office product group http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf
1990s

“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.”

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Source: Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)

“A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.”

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Cited to "Challenges and Strategy" (16 May 1991) via Fred Warshofsky (1994), The Patent Wars. This is a misreading of Warshofsky's text; the quotation is actually from League for Programming Freedom (1991), " Against Software Patents http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/int-prop/lpf-against-software-patents.html." An example of the misattribution appears in Lawrence Lessig (2001), The future of ideas.
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“"It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not." -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007”

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2000s

“There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.”

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Interview with Electronics magazine (1989)
1980s

“As soon as I learned about this miracle of chip making I thought, what is the key missing element? … I'd been working on software so I decided that maybe that was what was necessary to bring all this power to life. I talked about that with a friend, Paul Allen, and we kept saying, "What can we do? Can we start our own software company?" It seemed impossible at the time because software was not done by independent companies. The companies that built the computers — IBM and DEC — they did all the software. And when we called them up and said, "We would like to do an operating system," they said, "who are you?" to which we said, "we're high-school students."”

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That was s, uh — that was the end of that conversation.
Speech to the Economic Club of Detroit (1997) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzX6UUJ461s
1990s

“Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.”

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

“Life is not fair. Get used to it… Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.”

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Though widely attributed to Gates on the internet, this list of life suggestions is actually based on one from Charles J. Sykes. More information at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.htm
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“Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.”

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Speech at the Computer History Museum, as quoted in InfoWorld magazine (October 2001) http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/01/HNgatestalksmuseum_1.html
2000s

“I’d like to start by telling you about my wife Melinda’s Aunt Myra. We see her a few times a year. Aunt Myra worked for many years taking reservations for Delta Airlines. She lived in New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina, and then she moved to Dallas, Melinda’s hometown. She loves to see our kids. When we all get together, she’ll sit down on the floor and play games with them. Aunt Myra also has polio. She’s in braces, and she has been ever since she was a little girl.”

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Regarding Bill And Melinda Gates' Polio Efforts (2009)

“We don't have the user centricity. Until we understand context, which is way beyond presence — presence is the most trivial notion, just am I on this device or not; it doesn't say am I meeting with something, am I focused on writing something. i had to suck dicks this morning help me i gayyyyyy”

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.NET Briefing Day Speech (24 July 2002) http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2002/07-24netstrategy.asp
2000s

“Unfortunately, many programs are so big that there is no one individual who really knows all the pieces, and so the amount of code sharing you get isn't as great. Also, the opportunity to go back and really rewrite something isn't quite as great, because there's always a new set of features that you're adding on to the same program.”

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Source: Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)

“If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?”

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Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in 80 Microcomputing (1980) http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/20/1316236&mode=thread Clips from the interview can be found on "No Money (Lullaby for Bill)" http://maltedmedia.com/books/papers/sf-gates.html by Dennis Báthory-Kitsz. http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/index.html
1980s

“If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.… The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can.”

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" Challenges and Strategy http://web.archive.org/web/20010218085558/http://bralyn.net/etext/literature/bill.gates/challenges-strategy.txt" (16 May 1991). Note that this quotation has been paired with a misattributed quotation.
1990s

“We're no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really know what they were doing.”

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Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)

“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”

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The Wall Street Journal (December 29, 2011).
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“This leads to the paradox, that because the disease is only in the poor countries, there is not much investment. For example, there is more money put into baldness drugs, than are put into malaria. Now, baldness, it is a terrible thing [audience laughter] and rich men are afflicted, so that is why that priority is set.”

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Video may be viewed here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppDWD3VwxVg.
TED, February (2009)

“I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.”

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"Bill Gates backs immigration reform on Mexico trip" Reuters (21 March 2007) http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN2024750720070321
2000s

“[RAM1993] I laid out memory so the bottom 640 K was general purpose RAM and the upper 384 I reserved for video and ROM, and things like that. That is why they talk about the 640 K limit. It is actually a limit, not of the software, in any way, shape, or form, it is the limit of the microprocessor. That thing generates addresses, 20-bits addresses, that only can address a megabyte of memory. And, therefore, all the applications are tied to that limit. It was ten times what we had before. But to my surprise, we ran out of that address base for applications within—oh five or six years people were complaining.”

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Bill Gates Interview: Winner of the 1993 Price Waterhouse Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement, Computerworld Smithsonian Awards, https://web.archive.org/web/20080501040344/http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/gates.htm, May 10, 2008, National museum of American history - Smithsonian Institution, 1993, October 8, 2014 http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/gates.htm,
1990s

“Let's burn the 99%.”

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TED, February 2010

“The success of the Nigeria programme hinges on the active participation of everyone to make sure that all children are reached by National Immunization Days (NIDs), Immunization Plus Days (IPDs) and the routine immunization programme, if the country capitalizes on the commitments I’ve heard in the past two days, Nigeria can lead the way to a polio-free Africa.”

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http://www.polioeradication.org/tabid/165/iid/30/Default.aspx "Bill Gates visits Nigeria" polioeradication.org (04 February 2009)
Regarding Bill And Melinda Gates' Polio Efforts (2009)

“Nothing is as good as meeting people who have to live with malaria or HIV or see their children die.”

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"Ask Me Anything" thread on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/aunv58/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/eh9gsvg (25 February 2019)
2000s

“Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business?”

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"In Search of the Real Bill Gates," Time (20 October 2005)
2000s

“[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."”

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It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, "Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it."
"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
2010s

“Halting funding for the World Health Organization during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds.”

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on Twitter https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1250292126643941376?s=20, Apr 14, 2020
COVID-19 pandemic 2020

“Most governments take advantage of their scientists and listen to them. They don't undermine them and attack them.”

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As quoted in "Bill Gates slams U.S. on Covid: Most governments listen to their scientists, not attack them" (14 October 2020) https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/14/bill-gates-slams-us-on-covid-most-governments-listen-to-scientists.html
2020s