Bill Gates Quotes

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

I do like the iPhone. I've been a Blackberry person from, like, literally day one of Blackberry, so it's been a real switch, but it's a great device.

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

I'm not a gadget freak, so to say. I own an iPhone, which I love, and would sorely love to upgrade to MacBook Air from my current MacBook Pro. But what gets me going is the technology behind the gadgets, new websites, new apps. And I'm way too much into social media - FB, Twitter and Instagram are always open on my phone.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

To say that Windows 95 is just like the Mac is like finding a potato in the shape of Jesus and thinking you have witnessed the second coming

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones.

A key feature of the digital age is that technology changes incessantly to sate user demands

Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.

What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences.

I've never used an app.

The iPhone is so easy to use and navigate - I'd be lost without it.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

The value that SoftBank saw in us was that we are a technology company in the mobile Internet space.

I've always had a passion for the tech industry, and I like to help build interesting products.

By the beginning of the 21st century, entrepreneurs, led by Web and mobile startups, began to seek and develop their own management tools.

We founded Palantir in 2003-2004 because we perceived a giant gap between how the defense and intelligence community was harnessing technology to achieve its goals and what we had seen was possible in Silicon Valley over the last decade.