Bill Atkinson Quotes

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

I love software and I love technology.

Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.

Music's always been at the heart of Apple. It's deep in our DNA. We've sold Macs to musicians since the beginning of Macs.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.

I came to Silicon Valley in 1997 and joined WebEx. At that time, WebEx was small, only 10 engineers and two co-founders.

Software increasingly defines the world around us.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.

This is a software-powered world.

It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

I started passing out the schematics and the code listings for the computer, telling everyone here it is. It's small, it's simple, it's inexpensive: Build your own. No idea to start a company. Steve Jobs came by later and say, you know, people are interested. Why don't we start a company?