89 quotes
There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.
Interview with Electronics magazine (1989)
The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.
Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be.
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.
The only way you can get to the very positive scenario [in the fight against climate change] is by great innovation. Innovation really does bend the curve.
Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
Halting funding for the World Health Organization during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds.
When it comes to climate change, I know innovation isn’t the only thing we need. But we cannot keep the earth livable without it. Techno-fixes are not sufficient, but they are necessary.
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (2021)
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.
When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war.
It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in 80 Microcomputing (1980)
Is passing large sums of wealth on to your children good for them or right for society?
"So the idea of being able to explain something in a succinct form is such a cool thing, and it requires you to know a field so well."
The greatest mistake ever is the whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is, meaning Android is the standard non-Apple phone form platform.
Bill Gates quotes about Android (2019)
Most governments take advantage of their scientists and listen to them. They don't undermine them and attack them.
Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business?
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?
Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in 80 Microcomputing (1980)
We are running the worst testing system, in terms of who gets access to it, of any country
People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that "he died rich" will not be one of them.
I think it's [Bitcoin] a technical tour de force, but that's an area where governments are gonna maintain a dominant role.