There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.... I'm saying we don't do a new version to fix bugs. We don't. Not enough people would buy it. You can take a hundred people using Microsoft Word. Call them up and say "Would you buy a new version because of bugs?" You won't get a single person to say they'd buy a new version because of bugs. We'd never be able to sell a release on that basis.

One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in the high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

BILL GATES, attributed, Upgrade Your Brain: 52 brilliant ideas for everyday genius

The day has almost arrived when you can easily conduct business, study, explore the world and its cultures, call up great entertainment, make friends, go to neighborly markets, and show pictures to your relatives, wherever they are--without leaving your desk or your armchair. Once this new era is in full swing, you won't leave your network connection behind at the office or in the classroom. Your connection will be more than an appliance you've bought or an object you carry. It will be your passport into a new, "mediated" way of life.

We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast... It will be some finite number of years, and I don't know the number — before our doom comes.