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"The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work dont lay a solid foundation, and then theyre not involved in the program in the future."
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William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31.
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"If something is expensive to develop, and somebodys not going to get paid, it wont get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?"
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"Theres only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software thats already been written."
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"The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC."
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"I think its more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."
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"We should spend the next decade focusing on the technologies, [governmental] policies and market structures that will put us on the path to eliminating greenhouse gases by 2050. Its hard to think of a better response to a miserable [year of COVID-19 disruptions during] 2020 than spending the next ten years dedicating ourselves to this ambitious goal."
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