“Anytime we have new forms of communication it changes behavior whether it is political or business or any type of behavior.”
Bill Gates
Smithsonian Interview: Bill Gates (Primary source)
Bill Gates reflects on the early personal computing revolution, Microsoft’s role, and how software shaped the industry in this Smithsonian oral history interview from the Computer History Collection.
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“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Few skills are more important than knowing how to distinguish what’s true from what’s false.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Any company that stays the same will be passed by very quickly.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone. It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care, and communicate with each other.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Let every new year find you a better man.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“The type of person who comes up with the brilliant idea isn’t often the best person to turn it into a business.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“I will not be triumphed over.”
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