If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
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.
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
Make it just like a Mac.
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Software, by being comprehensive, can save costs by avoiding add-on pieces of software. We can save money in terms of speed of development or by being able to run on less expensive hardware.
Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software.
Billy gates why do you make this possible? Stop making money and fix your software!
I never would have predicted it. I didn't set out to achieve some level of wealth or size of company. I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But