Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
In the Independent on Sunday, 12 October 1997. |
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill GatesWhat's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
Bill GatesIf 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?
Bill GatesIt'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.
Bill GatesThe next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.
Bill GatesI believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.
Bill GatesThere's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.
Bill GatesYour most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill GatesMicrosoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.
Bill GatesLike 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 irritating.
Bill GatesSpam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.
Bill GatesIf you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.
Bill GatesUnderstand that this is the last physical format there will ever be.
Bill GatesRobots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
Bill GatesThe obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
Bill GatesI see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years.
Bill GatesIntellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill GatesIs passing large sums of wealth on to your children good for them or right for society?
Bill GatesWe are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
Bill GatesIt's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
Bill GatesInstead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.
Bill Gates