Bill Gates Quotes

In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.

There are two great fictional TV series about technology and the computer industry that each have now had three seasons. The one everyone knows about is 'Silicon Valley.' The lesser-known one is 'Halt and Catch Fire.'

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

Today, there are industries employing hundreds of thousands of engineers creating artificial intelligence.

Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It's just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.

I'm delighted to be returning to my California roots and joining Google.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

I'm definitely going back to school to be a computer engineer.

I love technology. I have my iPad, iPad mini, iPhone and Mac laptop. Because I love technology, I think if I were not at the NBA, I would try to be part of a tech startup company.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let’s roll out the welcome mat.

Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.

I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.'

If you think having a tech job is the answer to all your problems, think again.

The tech titans and the tech guys who I most admire are the ones behind the scenes.

Since its inception, HCL's core focus area has been technology and product development, and hence, we continued to remain in the high end of technology throughout the '90s.

I look forward to being part of the ASUS family and its fascinating growth journey in India.

When I started working with a computer, to me it was kind of like animating with a backhoe. But when you see the results, it just blows your mind.

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

I've been working for, like, 10 years now, which is a very strange thing to say when you're 23.

After graduating in International Relations in 2011, I turned down safe, corporate job offers and instead accepted a position at an 'incubator' in L.A. - a tech word for a team of people who are funded by investors to create apps. I knew the future was digital and that I had to take a risk.

Before I turned 30, through a lot of hard work and support, I won many badminton titles. But after turning 30, Lin Dan should change that mindset and start in a new direction and do things that are more meaningful.