Bill Gates

"Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So …"

"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."

"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."

"The success of the Nigeria programme hinges on the active participation of everyone to make sure that all children are reached by National Immunization Days , Immunization Plus Days and the routine im…"

"We would like every country to be self-sufficient so that both in terms of running a good primary health care system and funding a good primary health care system, it's all OK, and they just participa…"

"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."

"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…"

"I laid out memory so the bottom 640 K was general purpose RAM and the upper 384 I reserved for video and ROM, and things like that. That is why they talk about the 640 K limit. It is actually a limit,…"