Muhammad Ali vs. Bill Gates

"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?"

"We are running the worst testing system, in terms of who gets access to it, of any country"

"In the last 20 years, thanks to your hard work, polio has declined by 99 percent. In 1988, 350,000 people got polio. By 2008, the number was down to just a c…"

"Before Paul and I started the company, we had been involved in some large-scale software projects that were real disasters. They just kept pouring people in,…"

"Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if…"

"I'd like to start by telling you about my wife Melinda's Aunt Myra. We see her a few times a year. Aunt Myra worked for many years taking reservations for De…"

"This leads to the paradox, that because the disease is only in the poor countries, there is not much investment. For example, there is more money put into ba…"

"The moral systems of religion, I think, are superimportant. We've raised our kids in a religious way; they've gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes t…"

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."

"When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war. That's why we had a barrel like this down in our basement, filled with cans of food a…"

"Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes."

"Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'l…"

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

"t's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, "Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough." It's a nice reader, but there's …"

"Unfortunately, many programs are so big that there is no one individual who really knows all the pieces, and so the amount of code sharing you get isn't as g…"

"Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company."

"If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act."

"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 …"

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

"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 complet…"