[Golden Eagle]

In the mid-90s, Gates was giving comments at a techno meeting. In it, he made this statement: 'good ideas are meant to be borrowed; great ideas are meant to be stolen'.

It was actually Jobs who said that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0UjU0rtavE&feature=related

When I did a search for your quote on Yahoo, they were all attributed to you:

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu9Z0Wz1IQGEAztBXNyoA?p=gates+%22great+ideas+are+meant+to+be+stolen%22&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8

No malice intended, and if Gates did actually say that I apologize, but I just happened to remember Job's "Picasa" quote and looked it up.

[TomGuy]

The Jobs video was posted in 2007. It does not give a date (that I saw) of when he made that statement.

The statment I was referring to was made over 10 years ago at a techno conference/interview about technology and its development. I am pretty sure it was made by Gates.