♦ Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that – Bill Gates

♦ It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not – Bill Gates

♦ We’re responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software. that’s something we brought to computing. And so it’s a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don’t get in the way of that dream – Bill Gates

♦  Every day were saying, ‘How can we keep this customer happy?’ How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don’t, somebody else will – Bill Gates

♦  People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? – Bill Gates

♦ I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it – Bill Gates

♦ 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 – Bill Gates

♦ At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas, but the image is that they all come from the top , I’m  afraid that’s not quite right – Bill Gates

♦ About three 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 – Bill Gates

♦ Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved – Bill Gates