"I have to say that in 1981,..." - Quote by Bill Gates
I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
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“The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.”
“Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.”
“The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.”
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“The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.”
“Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you're confused about it, [the area] where you're confused can be analyzed by software.”
“Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.”
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“Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!”
“It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.”
“Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.”