There Are People Who Don't Like Capitalism, And People Who Don't Like Pcs. But There's No-one Who Likes The Pc Who Doesn't Like Microsoft.
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 Exciting.
When The Pc Was Launched, People Knew It Was Important.
When You Want To Do Your Homework, Fill Out Your Tax Return, Or See All The Choices For A Trip You Want To Take, You Need A Full-size Screen.
The Pc Has Improved The World In Just About Every Area You Can Think Of. Amazing Developments In Communications, Collaboration And Efficiencies. New Kinds Of Entertainment And Social Media. Access To Information And The Ability To Give A Voice People Who Would Never Have Been Heard.
We Are Not Even Close To Finishing The Basic Dream Of What The Pc Can Be.
I Actually Thought That It Would Be A Little Confusing During The Same Period Of Your Life To Be In One Meeting When You're Trying To Make Money, And Then Go To Another Meeting Where You're Giving It Away. I Mean Is It Gonna Erode Your Ability, You Know, To Make Money? Are You Gonna Somehow Get Confused About What You're Trying To Do?
We've Got To Put A Lot Of Money Into Changing Behavior.
People Everywhere Love Windows.
Dos Is Ugly And Interferes With Users' Experience.
Whether It's Google Or Apple Or Free Software, We've Got Some Fantastic Competitors And It Keeps Us On Our Toes.
I Believe That If You Show People The Problems And You Show Them The Solutions They Will Be Moved To Act.
People Always Fear Change. People Feared Electricity When It Was Invented, Didn't They? People Feared Coal, They Feared Gas-powered Engines... There Will Always Be Ignorance, And Ignorance Leads To Fear. But With Time, People Will Come To Accept Their Silicon Masters.
Intellectual Property Has The Shelf Life Of A Banana.
The First Rule Of Any Technology Used In A Business Is That Automation Applied To An Efficient Operation Will Magnify The Efficiency. The Second Is That Automation Applied To An Inefficient Operation Will Magnify The Inefficiency.
If Gm Had Kept Up With Technology Like The Computer Industry Has, We Would All Be Driving $25 Cars That Got 1,000 Mpg.
Until We're Educating Every Kid In A Fantastic Way, Until Every Inner City Is Cleaned Up, There Is No Shortage Of Things To Do.
This Is A Fantastic Time To Be Entering The Business World, Because Business Is Going To Change More In The Next 10 Years Than It Has In The Last 50.
There's No Magic Line Between An Application And An Operating System That Some Bureaucrat In Washington Should Draw.
Who Decides What's In Windows? The Customers Who Buy It.
Expectations Are A Form Of First-class Truth: If People Believe It, It's True.
I Have An Excellent Memory, A Most Excellent Memory.
I Never Took A Day Off In My Twenties. Not One. And I'm Still Fanatical, But Now I'm A Little Less Fanatical.
The Kids Are A Big Part Of My Schedule.
I Read A Lot Of Obscure Books And It Is Nice To Open A Book.
Digital Reading Will Completely Take Over. It's Lightweight And It's Fantastic For Sharing. Over Time It Will Take Over.