5 Bill Gates Quotes on Innovation

Bill Gates quotes on innovation

3. To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination - and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

4. The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

7. If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

18. Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?'

51. Bill Gates is a very rich man today ... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

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