"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."
"Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority."
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Source: Bill Gates' Speech at the University of Washington, archive.fortune.com. July 20, 1998.
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