"I want to make clear that we..." - Quote by Bill Gates

“A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.”

“There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.”

“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

“But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall assuredly give a fatal stab to our national credit in its infancy. Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them. Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.”

“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”

“I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.”

“Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.”

“It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.”

“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”