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

Bill Gates, BusinessWeek, 1984

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

Bill Gates, 1987

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Bill Gates, Focus Magazine, 1995.

I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years

Bill Gates, Comdex trade event, 1994.

Today's Internet is not the information highway I imagine, although you can think of it as the beginning of the highway.

Bill Gates, The Road Ahead (his book), 1995

E-mail spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.

Bill Gates, BBC interview, 2004