People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that "he died rich" will not be one of them. - Bill Gates

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

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.

The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.