Bill Gates
"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.""Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.""In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.""This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.""If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.""We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.""People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their sili""Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.""I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.""I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.""Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold ba""Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.""I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.""It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.""Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.""If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.""If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.""Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.""Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.""We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.""Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
