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… - Bill Gates

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, and nobody knew how they were going to stabilize the project. We swore to ourselves that we would do better.

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

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination — and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.