"A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete."
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"The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out."
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"A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer."
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"Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks."
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"Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time."
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"If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating."
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"Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it."
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"I'm cooler than you. WAAAY cooler."
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"Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming."
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"Even when I wrote Basic myself the day before I burned it into a computer I wasn't making design changes. I didn't have a testing team. I did all the testing myself. And there was no project methodology or schedule that, there was the notion of coming to a close means testing a lot at the end and making very few changes."
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"People everywhere love Windows."
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"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness."
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"I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in."
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"Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over."
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"I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty."
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"As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software."
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"Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in."
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"The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening."
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"The microprocessor is a miracle."
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"The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life."
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