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„[640K] 640 K ought to be enough for anybody.“
„I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years.“
„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.“
„I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.“
„[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.“
„It’s not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There’s nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.“
„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.“
„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“
„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.“
„Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.“
„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“
„Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business?“
„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.“
„The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.“
„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.“
„”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“
„There’s only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that’s already been written.“
„Life is not fair. Get used to it… Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.“
„Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.“
„Let’s burn the 99%.“
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