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Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

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.

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

People everywhere love Windows.

Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can’t get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It’s an incredibly tedious process.

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users‘ experience.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

Nature hates calculators.

I’m a geek.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

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.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

I don’t write letters anymore.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.