Bill Gates Quotes

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

I'm a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that 'Presumed Innocent' brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way.

Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

Steve was perfectly aware of the Dynabook. That was one of the reasons he wanted me to come to Apple.

When I first got to Apple, which was in '84, the Mac was already out, and 'Newsweek' contacted me and asked me what I thought of the Mac. I said, 'Well, the Mac is the first personal computer good enough to be criticized.'

With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.

If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And it said, 'Thousands of people have discovered the Apple computer.' Thousands of people.

When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

Something else has happened with computers.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.

Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.

I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.

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.