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| Bill Gates
640K ought to be enough for anybody. AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about. The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.Anytime we have new forms of communication, it changes behavior whether it is political or business or any type of behavior. Radio and TV did that. The PC will be classed as big or bigger an advancement in communications that those devices were.As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.Citizens are interested in more information if they can easily reach out and get it.Everyone who has been in this industry has had a chance to participate in something very exciting. It is kind of like early steam engines or factories or something. The timing was right for the people who got to do it.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! I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I believe OS/2 . . . to be the most important OS . . . of all time.I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, yes my country is doing well, but you think about the world at large. I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal and economic system.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.I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software. I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.If something's 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?If there's one cultural quality we have, it's that we always see ourselves as an underdog.If we weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company.If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.In retrospect, committing to the graphics interface seems so obvious that now it's hard to keep a straight face.In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.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.Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. It's not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. Kids are really incredible, in terms of how much they dive into this and just take it as a given. They'll be the ones who really bring the web lifestyle into the mainstream.Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey. Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. Many of our research projects will fail.Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.Often you have to rely on intuition.One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products.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.Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy. So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on. Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more "user-friendly." Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, "user-friendly" on the cover.Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.The PC will continue to evolve. In fact, you'll think of it simply as a flat screen that will range from a wallet size device to a notebook, to a desktop, to a wall. . . . And those computers will be everywhere.The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways . . . are available thanks to technology.The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines. The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixedThere is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position. There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that. There's nobody getting rich [by] writing software.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.This means at least several years of confusion.To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes. We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, ''surrounding'' a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.We bet the company on Windows and we deserve to benefit. It was a risk that's paid off immensely.We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.We're talking about new waves, and new ways of thinking about the Internet, and that's going to keep all of our jobs very, very exciting.We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior. What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever. When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. |
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