Famous Quotes

"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters."

Bill Gates on Time

More quotes about Time

• "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."

  Roger Babson on Time

• "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

  Abraham Lincoln on Time

• "Lost time is never found again."

  Benjamin Franklin on Time

• "Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

  Jean de La Fontaine on Time

• "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

  C. S. Lewis on Time

More quotes by Bill Gates

• "The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."

• "Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."

• "In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone."

• "This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50."

• "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG."