Bill Gates Elements Quotations

Older systems were secure because they were isolated. You can't layer on top of a system elements to make it secure; you get too much of a mismatch between the components. This design approach is absolutely critical--thinking these things through from the beginning and not bringing security in at the end is very important. This has been a big shift for Microsoft.

Today the university combines many elements - great lectures, study groups, students in the lab - and the lecture piece should be broken off. The very best lectures from India or the U.S. or Britain will be available in streaming video, so students can consume that wherever they want and don't have to go do that all together in one place.

Patience is a key element of success.

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.

Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.