Comments on: Bill Gates–1986

By: Oswald

Oswald — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:07:39 +0000

Who said time travel is impossible? I just went back in time now with this interview and I have to say it is most refreshing and inspiring to actually see how some of the early power brokers of this industry of ours thought (at the the time). Putting this together, nice work!

By: Uday R. Chavan

Uday R. Chavan — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:27:45 +0000

This guy is a great visionary. He just wrote very good programs, and was prepared to take pains for that. He treated his programs like an art work. He is a programmer-artist at core and a billionaire afterwards. Some of his comments in this interview like ‘ The best way to prepare is to write programs, and study great programs that other people have written ‘ are relevant even after quarter of a century and will remain so for next hundreds of years. This interview gave me a lot of insight into why Microsoft is world No1 software company. Thanks for publishing this interview.

By: Gates and Jobs: Leadership styles in their own words | Sara F. Peralta

Gates and Jobs: Leadership styles in their own words | Sara F. Peralta — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:50:58 +0000

[...] -The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system. -Interview from Programmers at Work (1986) [...]

By: Life is good » Blog Archive » Two Interesting Interviews

Life is good » Blog Archive » Two Interesting Interviews — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:38:46 +0000

[...] Bill Gates 1986. [...]

By: Early Days « Lydianthird's Blog

Early Days « Lydianthird's Blog — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:12:16 +0000

[...] Since past few weeks I’ve been perplexed about the road ahead. I think I have a solid idea in my mind but yet a part of me is unsure on how to go about working on it. That’s when I stumbled upon a friends blog and found this rare interview of Bill Gates in the 80′s before Microsoft actually took off. It’s just amazing how the man had a vision of what the world would be like, a few decades later. To bring the vision to life he, had a magnanimous task ahead and beating all odds he sailed safely to the shore. He changed the world according to his vision. That is something really hard to achieve.The strategies used by the founders of most successful companies in its early days are often the defining ones of their entire career.Looking back at the early days of a few successful start ups, gives a great deal of perspective and insight. And, they all have things which are fairly common. Here’s the link for reference: Interview Transcript [...]

By: Bill Gates on great programmers | RobG3D

Bill Gates on great programmers | RobG3D — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 03:43:01 +0000

[...] from an interview with Bill Gates in the 1986 book Programmers at Work: I think after the first three or four years, it’s pretty cast in concrete whether you’re a [...]

By: Jyotirmoy sundi

Jyotirmoy sundi — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:46:45 +0000

nice relating maths and cs, although now its much more…

By: Nature at maryrosecook

Nature at maryrosecook — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:52:53 +0000

[...] first quote is from a Bill Gates interview in 1986. The second is one of Jeffrey Wigand’s lines in The [...]

By: James Ross

James Ross — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:37:35 +0000

Wow this is a smart guy. I can only imagine what it used to be like working for Microsoft back in the good old days. The intellectual elite, it is the way Google used to be. Interesting that everything that Mr. Gates feared/knew didn’t work with programming, development teams, and software development seems to have come to fruition in Windows Vista, Windows 7 and most everything else Microsoft tries to do.

By: | Stephenryan.ie

| Stephenryan.ie — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:21:55 +0000

[...] which the author kindly posted up a few interviews online. Bill Gates has one from 1986 (found here). It really is a truly insightful read. Bare in mind that this is pre windows, and not just gui [...]