♦ There’s only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that’s already been written – Bill Gates

♦ If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected – Bill Gates

♦Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes – Bill Gates

♦ Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana – Bill Gates

♦  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 – Bill Gates

♦ Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning – Bill Gates

♦ I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one’s children. It’s not constructive for them – Bill Gates

♦   I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot – Bill Gates

♦  Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs – Bill Gates

♦ Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time – Bill Gates