Famous entrepreneur and software developer Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft, arguably the world's largest and most influential software company. The technologies and programs developed by Gates and his company are a vital aspect of the computer industry.
Bill Gates Quotes:
"If
something's 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?"
- On Business
"It's
not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that.
There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of."
- On Software Industry (1980)
"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."
- On the Macintosh Computer (1984)
"The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC."
- On the Macintosh Computer (1984)
"The
best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to
study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went
to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out
listings of their operating system."
- On Preparation
"The
finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete
sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to
really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an
incredible degree."
- On Software
"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."
- On Software Development
"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."
- On Software Development
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