You Cannot Innovate By Copying.

I'd Prefer People Read About Churchill And How He Wasn't Overwhelmed By Nazi Germany. Amazing; That The Morale Of A Country Rested On One Person's Shoulders. Extraordinary People Carried That Country Through Its Darkest Hours; Truly Inspirational. I Suppose That's My Theme. Whether It's A Biography Or A Movie; Whether It's Fictional Or True, I'm Inspired By People Doing Great Things.

Right Now, 70 Percent Of The People Don't Have Computers. And Where They're Needed Most, People Don't Have Them. We Think This Will Enable Anyone To Own A Computer. We're Aiming At Everybody Who Uses A Computer As An Information Access Device. The Original Idea Was To Build One Cheaply Enough To Put One On Every Desk.

I Enjoy The Competition And The Process Of Learning As We Compete. The Whole Thing Is Just Fascinating. I Don't Know What I'll Do When I Retire. When I Go Sailing, I Look Around ... Anyone Want To Race? I Just Love Competing As Opposed To Just Going Out And Watching The Sunset.

If An Open Source Product Gets Good Enough, We'll Simply Take It. So The Great Thing About Open Source Is Nobody Owns It - A Company Like Oracle Is Free To Take It For Nothing, Include It In Our Products And Charge For Support, And That's What We'll Do. So It Is Not Disruptive At All - You Have To Find Places To Add Value. Once Open Source Gets Good Enough, Competing With It Would Be Insane. We Don't Have To Fight Open Source, We Have To Exploit Open Source.

Bill Gates Is The Pope Of The Personal Computer Industry. He Decides Who Is Going To Build.