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Bill Gates Wants People To Think He's Edison, When He's Really Rockefeller. Referring To Gates As The Smartest Man In America Isn't Right... Wealth Isn't The Same Thing As Intelligence.

Because Software Is All About Scale. The Larger You Are, The More Profitable You Are. If We Sell Twice As Much As Software, It Doesn't Cost Us Twice As Much To Build That Software. So The More Customers You Have, The More Scale You Have. The Larger You Are, The More Profitable You Are.

Great Achievers Are Driven, Not So Much By The Pursuit Of Success, But By The Fear Of Failure.

If The Internet Turns Out Not To Be The Future Of Computing, We're Toast. But If It Is, We're Golden.

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.