The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.
Bill GatesThe most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.
Bill GatesThis 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.
Bill GatesGovernment investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.
Bill Gates