“O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.” Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“The throne we honour is the people's choice.” PeopleChoicesCleverHonourThrones Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.” MeanGodLiteratureWineRitualThrowingDestroyingCornCornyAltarsThrowing Away Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.” JudgingCoffeeBreadRestaurants Author:Burt Lancaster
“I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs.” BelieveImportantUseOpportunityI BelieveInvolvedProgramIncrediblesAll TimeDestinedMicrosoftSuccessorsOperating Systems Author:Bill Gates
“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 I fished out listings of their operating systems.” PeopleWayWritingSuccessLeadershipWorkCasesStudyWrittenComputerProgramBest WayProgrammingGarbageMicrosoftProgrammersComputer ProgrammingComputer ScienceProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageComputer ProgrammersOperating SystemsGarbage CansComputer Systems Author:Bill Gates
“The Internet? We are not interested in it” InternetComputerNot InterestedMicrosoft Author:Bill Gates
“Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.” SometimesTakenExampleInternetSurprisePrioritiesFifthMicrosoft Author:Bill Gates
“We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)” FirstsCourtResponseMicrosoftIntegratingFilingOperating SystemsBrowsersAntitrust Author:Bill Gates
“(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.” ThinkingLittlesLinesProgramResponseMicrosoftJava Author:Bill Gates