Bill Gates Oft Quotations

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

Software is more important than hardware.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.

Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

The Internet? We are not interested in it

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.

Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

If something is 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?

We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)

Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

What will be most fun for me is to see how your generation comes in and takes software to a whole new level.

While Microsoft does not share all of Sun's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

There is a new phase now, a business mania around the Internet. We need a new generation of software tools that makes it easy to build this phase,

There will be competitors for Microsoft and for Israeli companies coming out of those countries although today the success, particularly in India, has mostly been in the software services area, outsourcing work, doing call centers and things like that,

That kernel operating system ... is not the key area, it is the software you have to buy on top of that to deal with management, security and directories and things like that.

The Times Reader is a powerful example of how companies can use software to forge new types of customer connections that span beyond the browser to the desktop and mobile devices. The New York Times is setting a standard not only for media organizations, but for all companies looking for new ways to interact with consumers through software.

There is competition, ... Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.

It is a great pleasure for me to announce that Steve Ballmer -- my long-term partner in building Microsoft and a great business leader -- is being named CEO,

Having great software that lets your people see digital information, lets them collaborate, lets you build a great Web site, that's going to be very, very important for all companies going forward, ... And Windows 2000 is the key platform where that starts.

This will continue, ... They'll have a new version, we'll have a new version. It's a healthy competition that you expect in the computer software market.

In the next decade there'll be a shortage of great software engineers. We'll be scouring the schools for them,

Jobs in software are really fun jobs. These are not jobs about just closing the door and writing a lot of code.

Our vision of what's important is exactly the same today, bringing together the best systems and the best software to empower people with rich information solutions.

We think we'll revolutionize how people do things in the workplace by bringing streaming media and Microsoft Office together in a combined vision,

Consumers are getting more connected. Software is at the heart of it.

Consumers are getting more connected, and software is the center of that. The idea of holding meetings is different. The phone is different. That's because software is the center of it.

Consumers are getting more and more connected, and software is at the center of that.

It's possible to do a much better machine . . . You could put a faster processor in. Intel's has the 8086. I think five years from now the amount of software and the quality of the software on this machine will be incredible. It will dwarf what is available on mainframes, minicomputers and other machines.

It's unfortunate that a settlement wasn't possible, ... Microsoft certainly went the extra mile.

I am here to share my story and answer questions about Microsoft and the PC industry, ... I hope that my testimony helps the court to resolve the issues in this case. That would be best for consumers and the industry, and that's why I am here.

It's a major milestone. The settlement puts new responsibilities on Microsoft and we accept them. I am personally committed to full compliance. We are committed to being a responsible industry leader.

Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."

Well before the case was filed Microsoft did everything it could to try and settle the case. In fact, there were about 10 days when day and night I was on the phone and made every effort I could.

The government is going to file a lawsuit. Microsoft is innocent of any of these charges and we're certainly going to defend ourselves vigorously,

We need in this industry small software companies with two or five people that are very, very specialized, ... We also need many giants.

These proposals will have a chilling effect on innovation in the high technology industry, ... Microsoft could never have developed Windows under these rules. Looking forward, this kind of regulation would make it impossible for Microsoft to develop the next generation of great software.

These new offerings demonstrate how software is evolving through the power of services in ways that enable more dynamic and relevant experiences for people. Our goal is to make Windows, Office and Xbox further come alive for our customers at work, home and play.

Ray has long demonstrated his passion for software, and through his work at Groove he also came to realize the transformative potential for combining software and services.

Certainly, we are trying to preserve all of that culture, and get the advantages of being a large company with a broad product line, with stability, worldwide presence, great support, and yet have the advantages that a small software company has.

Microsoft is committed to playing its role by making a broad set of investments in the country. Just less than a year ago, when I met with the prime minister, we made some very concrete commitments about increased investment, and I'm pleased to see that all of those have come to pass and they've all been very successful.

Microsoft has not treated us as a customer.

Microsoft has been in India for 15 years now, and our commitment continues to grow. India's exceptional IT talent and vibrant local ISV industry is helping to empower a truly global knowledge economy.

Microsoft and MTV Networks have combined their strengths to dramatically redefine how Windows users discover and enjoy music.

Microsoft is running its entire business, Exchange Server and SAP, and everything on Windows 2000,

Hey, I never told anyone to buy my stock! Besides, no one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year-if you check, you'll see that that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

If as many people paid for software as they do here, we'd have well more than 10 times the business we do today.

Demands that Microsoft completely hide its Windows user interface and its Internet technology from PC users, and that we ship Netscape's competing software in every copy of Windows, all appear to benefit a single competitor at the expense of consumers,

Under this lawsuit, a software developer would have to ask questions like, 'Is someone else doing something similar?' Because someone might file a lawsuit, ... This would create a chilling effect on the industry.

We need to move beyond voice to voice and data, ... Microsoft can do this by bringing all the pieces together. And once we do, we are really going to surprise people.

Building on our strengths as a software company, X-Box will offer game developers a powerful platform and game enthusiasts an incredible experience, ... We want X-Box to be the platform of choice for the best and most creative game developers in the world.

The message that personal computers can do neat things, that software is great stuff, that there's an exciting opportunity here and Microsoft is involved in it, that's a worthwhile message for Microsoft to get out.

The growth in employment for Microsoft will be more in India than in the United States.

The incredible momentum around all these new products and services shows that the digital lifestyle has truly gone mainstream this year. Now it's time to bring together the devices, software and services in people's lives and take all these experiences to the next level.

Software will be the single most important force in digital entertainment over the next decade, ... XNA underscores Microsoft's commitment to the game industry and our desire to work with partners to take the industry to the next level.

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.

Software is working to create an individualized video feed to the screen you're watching.

Software is the place where the action is . . . it is an area that will continue to generate jobs. This is the golden age of software.

Software is redefining how people do things, ... We're nowhere near what we can do.

Software is providing power, but software has got to provide simplicity. And that's why our investment levels are going up, investments in the toughest problems: security, privacy, speech recognition, video recognition, and all of those things will fold into this platform.

Software empowerment can be used here as well.

In a sense this is the end of an era. Microsoft and the original PC rose to prominence based on the MS-DOS product. And even as Windows came along, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, underneath MS-DOS was running there. Windows simply sat on top of MS-DOS. Well, so today it really is actually the end of the MS-DOS era. It's also, we would say, the end of the Windows 95 era.

It's simply the ingenuity of the software developers -- their brilliance, their energy in coming together and writing these software packages. At Microsoft, we need to recruit the best and the brightest.

The criticism is (that) we do new software too fast with too many new features, and that (that) makes it hard for people to compete against us,

I never expected Microsoft to be so successful, ... We're not ashamed that we've taken the low-price, high-volume approach here, which is different than the competitors, who are trying to get a leg-up from the government.

There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.

When Dr. Lee was an employee at Microsoft, I thought of him as trustworthy, ... There were a lot of things around his leaving Microsoft that I wouldn't have expected.

If you look at our investment in the next version of Windows, security would jump out as the thing we've spent the most time on. Microsoft has a big responsibility here.

could be read to ban Microsoft from competing in any product category. I know such a ban would be unreasonable, and yet that is what the language of Section 8 appears to provide for.

As a leader in the computing industry, Microsoft has a responsibility to help its customers address these concerns, so they no longer have to choose between security and usability. This is a long-term effort.

The opportunity to do better software has never been stronger. We talk about this digital decade and people living a digital work style or a digital lifestyle when they go home -and that is becoming more and more commonly accepted. As you move things away from paperwork and onto the digital approach, everything is software value-added.

Well, Larry predicted that the software industry would consolidate, and through billions of dollars in his spending, he's managed to make his prediction come true,

The legal process can be hard on anyone who goes through it, and the last four years have been challenging for all of us here at Microsoft, and for me personally, ... But despite the many twists and turns in the case, I've always had faith in our company and our employees and in the magic of the software we're creating.

No one should think that shareholder value would be preserved ... Microsoft would be greatly damaged by this kind of split.

I think five or six years ago, if you'd said to people that software would be incredible in terms of making photos better, music better, TV better, phone calls very different, they would have been quite skeptical, they would have thought, 'How can software do that? Now, particularly in music and to some degree in TV, they've seen that it makes a huge difference. It allows them to pick the things that they're interested in, it allows them to see it when they want to, to share with friends what they've seen and what they like.

There's more opportunity for software than there has ever been ... in a sense, you can say that you haven't seen anything yet,

Paul was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft and has played an important role in the success and direction of our company throughout the years,

Health care applications, on the other hand, are quite local, ... Most software is actually local and fairly specialized.

The introduction of the hand-held PC with Windows CE is a critical milestone in Microsoft 's continuing strategy to bring the popularity and ease of use to Windows to new categories of information devices,