Bill Gates Quotes

My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.

I carry my iPad and laptop with me everywhere.

I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars.

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.

I work on my novels wherever I have a PC, and I have four or five places around the world where I do have a PC. These days you can just slip a little flash drive into your top pocket, fly for 12 hours, come to another place, plug it into a computer and you are away again.

I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.

I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.

I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.

Arrangements to make people pay for using a program, including licensing of copies, always incur a tremendous cost to society through the cumbersome mechanisms necessary to figure out how much (that is, which programs) a person must pay for. And only a police state can force everyone to obey them. Consider a space station where air must be manufactured at great cost: charging each breather per liter of air may be fair, but wearing the metered gas mask all day and all night is intolerable even if everyone can afford to pay the air bill. And the TV cameras everywhere to see if you ever take the mask off are outrageous. It's better to support the air plant with a head tax and chuck the masks. Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

… science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race....

Computers have wonderful memories. Human memory is more fuzzy.

Computers are really, basically, computing elements and a lot of memory. They are pretty easy to understand, as compared to the brain, which was designed by evolution.

The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.

Tablets are more intuitive than a PC or laptop. They also have more real estate than a smartphone.

What's great about the iPad and iPhone is that they are easy-on, easy-off.

The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

I like the aspect of technology. For me to spin the way I do, I would have to carry five crates of records with me everywhere I go, which in this day and age would be like two hundred extra dollars in baggage fees. All I need now is a hard drive and a computer and I can rock anywhere in the world.

2-in-1 is a stupid term, because 1 is not big enough to hold 2. That's why 2 was created.

Nintendo Switch goes with me pretty much everywhere.

That we plug in carts or CDs with megabytes of memory when only yesterday we were happy to have 64K or 128K in our Apple II and PC workhorses... that's nothing short of phenomenal.