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Bill Gates

“640 K ought to be enough for anybody.”
in 1981

“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.”
in OS/2 Programmer's Guide

“The Internet? We are not interested in it”
in 1993

“Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.”
July 1998

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.”

“Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free”

“There are people who don't like capitalism, and there are people who don't like PCs, but there's no one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.”

“Life is not fair; get used to it.”

“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”

Linus Torvalds

“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done”

“Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.”

“See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too”

“When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free."”

“The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.”

“Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.”

“Given enoug eyeballs, all thugs are callow.”

“If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.”

“Do I see fragmentation for the Linux kernel? There is certainly going to be some of that.”

“The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.”