Bill Gates citáty

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„S nikým se na tomto světě nesrovnávej.... pokud tak učiníš, urazíš sám sebe.“

„K dokončení těžké práce si vybírám líného člověka. Protože líný člověk najde snadný způsob, jak tuto práci zvládnout.“

„Když máte v rukách peníze, zapomenete na to, kým jste. Když ale v rukách žádné peníze nemáte, celý svět zapomene, kým jste. Takový je život.“

„Předtím, než jste se narodili, vaši rodiče nebyli tak nudní jako dnes. Jsou tak nudní, protože platí účty, perou vaše oblečení a poslouchají vaše řeči o tom, jak jste úžasní. Proto dříve než vyrazíte zachraňovat deštné pralesy před krvelačnými parazity generace vašich rodičů, ukliďte si pokoj.“

„Pokud se narodíš chudý, není to tvá chyba, ale pokud zemřeš chudý, je to tvá chyba.“

„Líným lidem rád zadávám těžkou práci, vždy totiž najdou nejsnazší cestu, jak ji vykonat.“

„Většina lidí přeceňuje to, co udělají za jeden rok, a podceňuje to, co dokáží za deset let.“

„Všichni potřebujeme lidi, kteří nám poskytnou zpětnou vazbu. To je způsob, jak se zlepšovat.“

„Úspěch je špatný učitel. Kvůli němu si chytří lidé myslí, že nemohou prohrát.“

„Někdy se mne lidé ptají, čemu bych se věnoval, když ne počítačům. Pracoval bych v biotechnologii.“

„Je hezké slavit úspěch, ale důležitější je dbát na poučení z neúspěchu.“

„Náš úspěch byl opravdu založen na partnerství od samého začátku.“

„Když to nemůžete udělat dobře, alespoň to udělejte tak, že to vypadá dobře.“

„Buďte milí na „nerdy“, můžete skončit tak, že pod nimi budete pracovat.“

„Moje nejdůležitější práce je vývoj osobního počítače. To jsem dělal od 20 do 40, ani jsem se kvůli tomu neoženil. To je mé nejcennější životní dílo.“

„Peníze za určitou částkou pro mě nemají žádné využití. Jediné jejich využití je vybudování organizace, která věnuje tyto peníze chudším částem světa.“

„Život není spravedlivý. Zvykněte si na to.“

„640kB paměti musí stačit každému.“

„Já a Steve jsme velice odlišní. Ale oba jsme byli dobří ve vybírání spolupracovníků. Oba jsme byli velice energičtí a pracovali jsme hodně tvrdě. Původní Mac software jsme navrhovali společně. Byli jsme v té době velice naivní. Steve Jobs říkal, že počítač bude stát 500 dolarů ale nakonec stál 2000 dolarů. Ale byla to skvělá zkušenost.“

„Microsoft měl v minulosti mnoho soupeřů. Ale dnes je najdete pouze v muzeích.“

„Nejvíce nespokojení zákazníci jsou váš největší zdroj, ze kterého se můžete poučit.“

„Nikdy nás ani nenapadlo, že vyděláme tolik peněz. Prostě jsme jen rádi vymýšleli a psali software.“

„Když se podíváme do dalšího století, vůdci budou ti, kteří zmocní ostatní.“

„„Když jsme zakládali Microsoft, zvolili jsme si jako motto „počítač pro každého pracovníka“ a „počítač v každé domácnosti“. Nedošlo nám ale, že k tomu je potřeba obrovská společnost. Pokaždé když jsem společnost zvětšoval, pomyslel sem si: “Panebože, můžeme se vůbec ještě zvětšovat?”“

„“Naprosté vymýcení určité nemoci je zvláštní. Nula je magické číslo. Buď uděláte to, co je potřeba, abyste se dostali k nule. A pak jste šťastní, že jste to udělali. Nebo se tomu přiblížíte a vzdáte to a pak se (nemoc) vrátí. V tom případě jste ale vyplýtvali spoustu času a peněz.““

„Pokud lidem ukážete problémy a ukážete jim řešení, budou jednat.“

„Vypálíme 99 %.“

“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 it weren't so irritating.”

“The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.”

“The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.”

“One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.”

“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.”

“A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors.”

“"It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not." -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007”

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

“As soon as I learned about this miracle of chip making I thought, what is the key missing element? … I'd been working on software so I decided that maybe that was what was necessary to bring all this power to life. I talked about that with a friend, Paul Allen, and we kept saying, "What can we do? Can we start our own software company?" It seemed impossible at the time because software was not done by independent companies. The companies that built the computers — IBM and DEC — they did all the software. And when we called them up and said, "We would like to do an operating system," they said, "who are you?" to which we said, "we're high-school students."”

“Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.”

“Life is not fair. Get used to it… Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.”

“Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.”

“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 Delta Airlines. She lived in New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina, and then she moved to Dallas, Melinda’s hometown. She loves to see our kids. When we all get together, she’ll sit down on the floor and play games with them. Aunt Myra also has polio. She’s in braces, and she has been ever since she was a little girl.”

“We don't have the user centricity. Until we understand context, which is way beyond presence — presence is the most trivial notion, just am I on this device or not; it doesn't say am I meeting with something, am I focused on writing something. i had to suck dicks this morning help me i gayyyyyy”

“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 great. Also, the opportunity to go back and really rewrite something isn't quite as great, because there's always a new set of features that you're adding on to the same program.”

“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?”

“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.”

“We're no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really know what they were doing.”

“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”

“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 baldness drugs, than are put into malaria. Now, baldness, it is a terrible thing [audience laughter] and rich men are afflicted, so that is why that priority is set.”

“I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.”

“[RAM1993] 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, not of the software, in any way, shape, or form, it is the limit of the microprocessor. That thing generates addresses, 20-bits addresses, that only can address a megabyte of memory. And, therefore, all the applications are tied to that limit. It was ten times what we had before. But to my surprise, we ran out of that address base for applications within—oh five or six years people were complaining.”

“Let's burn the 99%.”

“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 (NIDs), Immunization Plus Days (IPDs) and the routine immunization programme, if the country capitalizes on the commitments I’ve heard in the past two days, Nigeria can lead the way to a polio-free Africa.”

“Nothing is as good as meeting people who have to live with malaria or HIV or see their children die.”

“Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business?”

“[I]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."”

“Halting funding for the World Health Organization during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds.”

“Most governments take advantage of their scientists and listen to them. They don't undermine them and attack them.”