Bill Gates Software Quotations

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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.

Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

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?

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

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

Software is more important than hardware.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.

Software will be the single most important force in digital entertainment over the next decade, ... XNA underscores Microsoft's commitment to the game industry and our desire to work with partners to take the industry to the next level.

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.

Software is working to create an individualized video feed to the screen you're watching.

Software is the place where the action is . . . it is an area that will continue to generate jobs. This is the golden age of software.

Software is redefining how people do things, ... We're nowhere near what we can do.

Software is providing power, but software has got to provide simplicity. And that's why our investment levels are going up, investments in the toughest problems: security, privacy, speech recognition, video recognition, and all of those things will fold into this platform.

Software empowerment can be used here as well.

Building on our strengths as a software company, X-Box will offer game developers a powerful platform and game enthusiasts an incredible experience, ... We want X-Box to be the platform of choice for the best and most creative game developers in the world.

If as many people paid for software as they do here, we'd have well more than 10 times the business we do today.

Having great software that lets your people see digital information, lets them collaborate, lets you build a great Web site, that's going to be very, very important for all companies going forward, ... And Windows 2000 is the key platform where that starts.

What will be most fun for me is to see how your generation comes in and takes software to a whole new level.

There is a new phase now, a business mania around the Internet. We need a new generation of software tools that makes it easy to build this phase,

Jobs in software are really fun jobs. These are not jobs about just closing the door and writing a lot of code.

I think five or six years ago, if you'd said to people that software would be incredible in terms of making photos better, music better, TV better, phone calls very different, they would have been quite skeptical, they would have thought, 'How can software do that? Now, particularly in music and to some degree in TV, they've seen that it makes a huge difference. It allows them to pick the things that they're interested in, it allows them to see it when they want to, to share with friends what they've seen and what they like.

Our vision of what's important is exactly the same today, bringing together the best systems and the best software to empower people with rich information solutions.

We need in this industry small software companies with two or five people that are very, very specialized, ... We also need many giants.

Well, Larry predicted that the software industry would consolidate, and through billions of dollars in his spending, he's managed to make his prediction come true,

While Microsoft does not share all of Sun's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

This will continue, ... They'll have a new version, we'll have a new version. It's a healthy competition that you expect in the computer software market.

Under this lawsuit, a software developer would have to ask questions like, 'Is someone else doing something similar?' Because someone might file a lawsuit, ... This would create a chilling effect on the industry.

The opportunity to do better software has never been stronger. We talk about this digital decade and people living a digital work style or a digital lifestyle when they go home -and that is becoming more and more commonly accepted. As you move things away from paperwork and onto the digital approach, everything is software value-added.

There's more opportunity for software than there has ever been ... in a sense, you can say that you haven't seen anything yet,

The Times Reader is a powerful example of how companies can use software to forge new types of customer connections that span beyond the browser to the desktop and mobile devices. The New York Times is setting a standard not only for media organizations, but for all companies looking for new ways to interact with consumers through software.

These new offerings demonstrate how software is evolving through the power of services in ways that enable more dynamic and relevant experiences for people. Our goal is to make Windows, Office and Xbox further come alive for our customers at work, home and play.

Ray has long demonstrated his passion for software, and through his work at Groove he also came to realize the transformative potential for combining software and services.

Demands that Microsoft completely hide its Windows user interface and its Internet technology from PC users, and that we ship Netscape's competing software in every copy of Windows, all appear to benefit a single competitor at the expense of consumers,

There will be competitors for Microsoft and for Israeli companies coming out of those countries although today the success, particularly in India, has mostly been in the software services area, outsourcing work, doing call centers and things like that,

It's possible to do a much better machine . . . You could put a faster processor in. Intel's has the 8086. I think five years from now the amount of software and the quality of the software on this machine will be incredible. It will dwarf what is available on mainframes, minicomputers and other machines.

Consumers are getting more connected. Software is at the heart of it.

Consumers are getting more connected, and software is the center of that. The idea of holding meetings is different. The phone is different. That's because software is the center of it.

Consumers are getting more and more connected, and software is at the center of that.

That kernel operating system ... is not the key area, it is the software you have to buy on top of that to deal with management, security and directories and things like that.

It's simply the ingenuity of the software developers -- their brilliance, their energy in coming together and writing these software packages. At Microsoft, we need to recruit the best and the brightest.

The message that personal computers can do neat things, that software is great stuff, that there's an exciting opportunity here and Microsoft is involved in it, that's a worthwhile message for Microsoft to get out.

In the next decade there'll be a shortage of great software engineers. We'll be scouring the schools for them,

Certainly, we are trying to preserve all of that culture, and get the advantages of being a large company with a broad product line, with stability, worldwide presence, great support, and yet have the advantages that a small software company has.

Health care applications, on the other hand, are quite local, ... Most software is actually local and fairly specialized.

The incredible momentum around all these new products and services shows that the digital lifestyle has truly gone mainstream this year. Now it's time to bring together the devices, software and services in people's lives and take all these experiences to the next level.

The criticism is (that) we do new software too fast with too many new features, and that (that) makes it hard for people to compete against us,

The legal process can be hard on anyone who goes through it, and the last four years have been challenging for all of us here at Microsoft, and for me personally, ... But despite the many twists and turns in the case, I've always had faith in our company and our employees and in the magic of the software we're creating.

The Internet will be a revolutionary tool during the next decade and will redefine business, ... Software is the key ingredient to changing the way we know the Internet today.