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"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."
"When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have."
"Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual."
"Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult."
"My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college."
"Often you just have to rely on your intuition."
"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."
"Bridge is the king of all card games."
"As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice."
"Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up."
"I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need."
"Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority."
"Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows."
"There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business"
"Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not."
"If I only had two dollars left I would spend one dollar on PR."
"Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time."
"Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point."
"Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place."
"Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?"