Bill Gates - Software Quotes

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What we're saying to people is that every idea about ease-of-use, we can develop in software, for the PC, without asking them to buy new hardware, without asking them to throw away their old applications.

Bill Gates
There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

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The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.

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The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

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About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. … I'm saying we don't do a new version to fix bugs. We don't. Not enough people would buy it. You can take a hundred people using Microsoft Word. Call them up and say "Would you buy a new version because of bugs?" You won't get a single person to say they'd buy a new version because of bugs. We'd never be able to sell a release on that basis.

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If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

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Before Paul and I started the company, we had been involved in some large-scale software projects that were real disasters. They just kept pouring people in, and nobody knew how they were going to stabilize the project. We swore to ourselves that we would do better.

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It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

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It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

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DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

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Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.

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Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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