"DOS is ugly and interferes with users'..." - Quote by Bill Gates

“If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.”

“It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.”

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

“Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.”

“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.”

“Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.”

“Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.”

“I'm not into fashion, but I like design. I wear the same shoes every day.”

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”