Hvis General Motors havde fulgt udviklingen i samme takt som computerindustrien, ville en bil koste 25 dollars og køre 5.000 km på literen.
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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.
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.
I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.
I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the 90s.
Perhaps the Most Truthful: on Microsoft marketing:
"There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go."
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.