Bill Gates on Creativity
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Bill Gates, catalogued under creativity, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Bill Gates, entry #124150: "The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future."
Attributed to Bill Gates, entry #72606: "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today....…"
3 Quotes by Bill Gates on Creativity
"The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future."
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.... The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can."
"If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine. If you're interested, Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. ... Let's be realistic, who came up with "File/Edit/View/Help"? Do you want to go back to the original Mac and think about where those interface concepts came from?"