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Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing. -- Bill Gates
I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time. -- Bill Gates
I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: 'Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.' I want to thank Harvard for this honor. I'll be changing my job next year and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume! -- Bill Gates
I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need. -- Bill Gates
Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company -- Bill Gates
I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger. -- Bill Gates
We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies." -- Bill Gates
The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best. -- Bill Gates
It's paradoxical that, when you have better health, families choose to have less children, because they've been having enough children so that they can be sure that a few of them will survive and take care of them. So as health improves, then all the other problems are dramatically easier to tackle. -- Bill Gates
All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them ... to everyone. -- Bill Gates
The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right. -- Bill Gates
Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things. -- Bill Gates
Microsoft is always two years away from failure. -- Bill Gates
By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education. -- Bill Gates
I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities ... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. -- Bill Gates
If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not? -- Bill Gates
Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know. -- Bill Gates
In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's. -- Bill Gates
You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour. -- Bill Gates
India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid. -- Bill Gates
China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them. -- Bill Gates
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing. -- Bill Gates
Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East. -- Bill Gates
Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day. -- Bill Gates
The internet is just a passing fad. -- Bill Gates
The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. -- Bill Gates
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer. -- Bill Gates
I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children. -- Bill Gates
I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups. -- Bill Gates
Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM. -- Bill Gates
About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade. -- Bill Gates
Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education. -- Bill Gates
When I say "an energy miracle," I mean that there will be some form of energy whose 24 hour cost really is competitive with hydrocarbons given, say, 20 years of learning curve. You invent it, then you look at how much its costs go down over the next 20 years, that it really beats hydrocarbons. -- Bill Gates
My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college. -- Bill Gates
People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get. -- Bill Gates
As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was ... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical. -- Bill Gates
The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent. -- Bill Gates
We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them. -- Bill Gates
Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult. -- Bill Gates
The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics. -- Bill Gates
There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints. -- Bill Gates
Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government. -- Bill Gates
In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. -- Bill Gates
To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies. -- Bill Gates
When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that. -- Bill Gates
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. -- Bill Gates
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. -- Bill Gates
My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff. -- Bill Gates
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. -- Bill Gates
At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on. -- Bill Gates
Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it. -- Bill Gates
Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth." -- Bill Gates
If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do! -- Bill Gates
The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system. -- Bill Gates
Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!? -- Bill Gates
Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy. -- Bill Gates
There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure. -- Bill Gates
Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. -- Bill Gates
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. -- Bill Gates
Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business. -- Bill Gates
There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of ... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice. -- Bill Gates
The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other. -- Bill Gates
I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it. -- Bill Gates
Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time. -- Bill Gates
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives. -- Bill Gates
Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence -- Bill Gates
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. -- Bill Gates
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. -- Bill Gates
Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement'
that might be spam. -- Bill Gates
Everyone knows about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Now help me spread the word about Giving Tuesday! -- Bill Gates
I think there will be PCs at every price point. -- Bill Gates
In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you'd be more likely to slow things down. -- Bill Gates
Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more people to get out to museums and galleries. -- Bill Gates
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. -- Bill Gates
I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids. -- Bill Gates
The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis. -- Bill Gates
Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free. -- Bill Gates
For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria. -- Bill Gates
It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away. -- Bill Gates
I studied every thing but never topped ... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees -- Bill Gates
We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other. -- Bill Gates
If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often. -- Bill Gates
Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs. -- Bill Gates
Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey. -- Bill Gates
We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that speaks to this decade and what's going to happen in this decade. We can kind of sum it up in terms of saying, "Yes, you can." -- Bill Gates
If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley. -- Bill Gates
We will never make a 32-bit operating system. -- Bill Gates
Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place. -- Bill Gates
In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear. -- Bill Gates
A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business. -- Bill Gates
When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security. -- Bill Gates
The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have said we should more than double it, if I thought the absorptive capacity could scale up and if it was actually possible to get to that level. -- Bill Gates
How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role. -- Bill Gates
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together. -- Bill Gates
Often you just have to rely on your intuition. -- Bill Gates
The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift. -- Bill Gates
Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod. -- Bill Gates
When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking. -- Bill Gates
The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?' -- Bill Gates
Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources. -- Bill Gates
Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one. -- Bill Gates
Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense. -- Bill Gates
I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances. -- Bill Gates
Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way. -- Bill Gates
When the PC was launched, people knew it was important. -- Bill Gates
Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact. -- Bill Gates
Inspiration starts somewhere. -- Bill Gates
The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries - Europe, Japan, New Zealand - using about half of what we do, and then the world average being about a fifth of what we use, with China just now surpassing the world average. -- Bill Gates
The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening. -- Bill Gates
We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust) -- Bill Gates
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. -- Bill Gates
I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue. -- Bill Gates
While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers. -- Bill Gates
Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man. -- Bill Gates
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks. -- Bill Gates
On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity. -- Bill Gates
Often you have to rely on intuition. -- Bill Gates
Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride. -- Bill Gates
If u are born poor then it's not your mistake but if u die poor then it is your mistake -- Bill Gates
Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong. -- Bill Gates
Kenya's M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf. -- Bill Gates
We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here. -- Bill Gates
Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you what can be done in a simpler way. -- Bill Gates
There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect. -- Bill Gates
I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started. -- Bill Gates
It's possible - you can never know - that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit. -- Bill Gates
People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works. -- Bill Gates
Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not. -- Bill Gates
I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily. -- Bill Gates
Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services. -- Bill Gates
In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years. -- Bill Gates
I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that. -- Bill Gates
If you think you're a really good programmer ... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming ... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing. -- Bill Gates
The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on. -- Bill Gates
In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically. -- Bill Gates
What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life. -- Bill Gates
My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive. -- Bill Gates
I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success. -- Bill Gates
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. -- Bill Gates
In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone. -- Bill Gates
If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain. -- Bill Gates
I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. -- Bill Gates
I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world. -- Bill Gates
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical. -- Bill Gates
I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago. -- Bill Gates
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 I fished out listings of their operating systems. -- Bill Gates
Started from the chair hop now we here. -- Bill Gates
As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software. -- Bill Gates
Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. -- Bill Gates
To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas. -- Bill Gates
Philanthropy should be voluntary. -- Bill Gates
We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well. -- Bill Gates
Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it. -- Bill Gates
America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U.S. has an amazing lead. -- Bill Gates
What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever. -- Bill Gates
The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids. -- Bill Gates
It's useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war. -- Bill Gates
During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark. -- Bill Gates
A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different. -- Bill Gates
People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change. -- Bill Gates
Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology. -- Bill Gates
When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, "My God!" No king ever had anything like I have in my grocery store today. -- Bill Gates
Computer science ... jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer
or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie. -- Bill Gates
You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower. -- Bill Gates
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. -- Bill Gates
From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on ... on the look for ah, that kind of person. -- Bill Gates
I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient. -- Bill Gates
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. -- Bill Gates
The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information. -- Bill Gates
I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government. -- Bill Gates
Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share. -- Bill Gates
It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D. -- Bill Gates
If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently? -- Bill Gates
I love nuclear. It does this radiation thing that's tricky (laughter). But they're good solutions. You know, it was interesting; recently, in Connecticut this natural gas plant blew up 11 guys. It just blew them up. -- Bill Gates
For one thing, there's an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn't matter if you have a perfect product, production plan and marketing pitch; you'll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans. -- Bill Gates
Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right. -- Bill Gates
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance ... you thrive on that. -- Bill Gates
I will always hire a lazy person to do a hard job, because they will always find an easy way to do it -- Bill Gates
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. -- Bill Gates
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies. -- Bill Gates
The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand. -- Bill Gates
Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is. -- Bill Gates
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. -- Bill Gates
When I was in college, for the games of that era, I was as hard core as anyone was. I wouldn't say I outgrew it, but you always have to have a finite number of addictions. -- Bill Gates
Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China.. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus. -- Bill Gates
Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money. -- Bill Gates
When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class. -- Bill Gates
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. -- Bill Gates
Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies. -- Bill Gates
Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft. -- Bill Gates
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. -- Bill Gates
The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. -- Bill Gates
Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides. -- Bill Gates
The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible. -- Bill Gates
So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side. -- Bill Gates
Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles. -- Bill Gates
(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong. -- Bill Gates
Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time. -- Bill Gates
I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know. -- Bill Gates
Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. -- Bill Gates
Patience is a key element of success. -- Bill Gates
Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement, and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care. -- Bill Gates
I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education. -- Bill Gates
We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code. -- Bill Gates
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years. -- Bill Gates
People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing. -- Bill Gates
Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that. -- Bill Gates
We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act -- Bill Gates
Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working. -- Bill Gates
Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it? -- Bill Gates
There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. -- Bill Gates
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. -- Bill Gates
Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals. -- Bill Gates
Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software. -- Bill Gates
The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years. -- Bill Gates
I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese. -- Bill Gates
Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you -- Bill Gates
China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth. -- Bill Gates
It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.' -- Bill Gates
It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations. -- Bill Gates
If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It starts to balance out. -- Bill Gates
This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies. -- Bill Gates
That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously. -- Bill Gates
Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition. -- Bill Gates
It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge. -- Bill Gates
My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted. -- Bill Gates
My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases. -- Bill Gates
We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough ... we're only paid for breakthroughs. -- Bill Gates
Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe. -- Bill Gates
In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in. -- Bill Gates
Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy. -- Bill Gates
The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough. -- Bill Gates
We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but
we get Growth from only those who don't agree
with us ! -- Bill Gates
A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away. -- Bill Gates
If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists. -- Bill Gates
So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on. -- Bill Gates
People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now. -- Bill Gates
The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite. -- Bill Gates
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. -- Bill Gates
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. -- Bill Gates
The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people. -- Bill Gates
I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs. -- Bill Gates
In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. -- Bill Gates
There is no doubt PC prices will be coming down. -- Bill Gates
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. -- Bill Gates
Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. I was watching my daughter ride horses this weekend and that is also a bit old fashioned but fun. I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it. -- Bill Gates
Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm. -- Bill Gates
Now, if you're rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like Calcutta, they just simply won't be able to afford that kind of protection. -- Bill Gates
When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it. -- Bill Gates
There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business -- Bill Gates
The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out. -- Bill Gates
If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now. -- Bill Gates
I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring. -- Bill Gates
Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that. -- Bill Gates
I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt ... They made their way through the machine ... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water. -- Bill Gates
The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny. -- Bill Gates
Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works. -- Bill Gates
See the clock only when you have No work ... Don't see the clock when you are working ... Clock is a lock for success -- Bill Gates
I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science. -- Bill Gates
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show Them The Solutions They Will Be Moved To Act -- Bill Gates
The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills. -- Bill Gates
In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it. -- Bill Gates
An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else. -- Bill Gates
I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news. -- Bill Gates
China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario. -- Bill Gates
I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested. -- Bill Gates
To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly. -- Bill Gates
The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic. -- Bill Gates
How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era. -- Bill Gates
This 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 Gates
I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out. -- Bill Gates
It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse. -- Bill Gates
A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything. -- Bill Gates
Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk. -- Bill Gates
I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. -- Bill Gates
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. It's like saying that as of 1932, cars didn't have radios in them, so they should never have radios in them. -- Bill Gates
I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that. -- Bill Gates
It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear. -- Bill Gates
Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated. -- Bill Gates
If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving." -- Bill Gates
Most of our competitors were one-product wonders ... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out. -- Bill Gates
Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not. -- Bill Gates
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man. -- Bill Gates
The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld. -- Bill Gates
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. -- Bill Gates
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty. -- Bill Gates
You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch. -- Bill Gates
It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy. -- Bill Gates
Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day. -- Bill Gates
When I say "miracle" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone, that are really quite miraculous. Most people would not have predicted them, and their effect has been very, very dramatic. -- Bill Gates
It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. -- Bill Gates
I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing. -- Bill Gates
You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show. -- Bill Gates
American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D. -- Bill Gates
If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there. -- Bill Gates
I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. -- Bill Gates
That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new startup companies should take it. In the $3 trillion a year energy market, the rewards will be quite fantastic. -- Bill Gates
Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone. -- Bill Gates
People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?' -- Bill Gates
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. -- Bill Gates
If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone. -- Bill Gates
I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can. -- Bill Gates
We're no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really know what they were doing. -- Bill Gates
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. -- Bill Gates
I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved. -- Bill Gates
Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money. -- Bill Gates
Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well. -- Bill Gates
The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world ... and have even more meaning -- Bill Gates
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system. -- Bill Gates
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved. -- Bill Gates
If we [the USA] don't innovate in education, it's literally going to mean less people get to go have that education at a time when more people are going to want it. We've got to put courses out on the Web, we've got to put interactive learning out on the Web. -- Bill Gates
With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case. -- Bill Gates
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk. -- Bill Gates
In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive. -- Bill Gates
The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world. -- Bill Gates
The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible. -- Bill Gates
Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career. -- Bill Gates
Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to. -- Bill Gates
The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard. -- Bill Gates
DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience. -- Bill Gates
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading. -- Bill Gates
The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on. -- Bill Gates
I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number. -- Bill Gates
The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper. -- Bill Gates
The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money. -- Bill Gates
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work? -- Bill Gates
In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will. -- Bill Gates
I'm not a macroeconomics person. -- Bill Gates
You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question. -- Bill Gates
There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go. -- Bill Gates
I have $100 billion ... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime ... -- Bill Gates
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. -- Bill Gates
Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time. -- Bill Gates
The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have. -- Bill Gates
Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows. -- Bill Gates
If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates. -- Bill Gates
If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet. -- Bill Gates
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students. -- Bill Gates
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit. -- Bill Gates
Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved. -- Bill Gates
The two areas that are changing ... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today. -- Bill Gates
If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is ... is right. -- Bill Gates
Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen. -- Bill Gates
I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that. -- Bill Gates
If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing. -- Bill Gates
I don't think culture is something you can describe. -- Bill Gates
The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work. -- Bill Gates
People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA [personal digital assistant] as we are. -- Bill Gates
Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever ... -- Bill Gates
In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future. -- Bill Gates
The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous. -- Bill Gates
The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is. -- Bill Gates
If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965. -- Bill Gates
Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even more than other developed countries. -- Bill Gates
My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer. -- Bill Gates
The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn. -- Bill Gates
Well, it's taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with a cause they care about, while buying a great product, they will. That was how the RED Campaign was born, here in Davos. -- Bill Gates
You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that. -- Bill Gates
Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society. -- Bill Gates
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code. -- Bill Gates
The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice. -- Bill Gates
The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying. -- Bill Gates
To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard. -- Bill Gates
I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again. -- Bill Gates
Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime. -- Bill Gates
There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done. -- Bill Gates
I am not a huge gamer. My son knows a LOT more than I do about what is cool on Xbox. I played Halo but the sports games that the whole family can use are the things I use the most. I threw the javelin very very far! -- Bill Gates
If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity. -- Bill Gates
The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic. -- Bill Gates
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. -- Bill Gates
Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning. -- Bill Gates
Computers and games don't waste time - people do. -- Bill Gates
The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less. -- Bill Gates
Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time. -- Bill Gates
I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them. -- Bill Gates
If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting. -- Bill Gates
The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done. -- Bill Gates
What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.' -- Bill Gates
The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology. -- Bill Gates
The kids are a big part of my schedule. -- Bill Gates
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. -- Bill Gates
My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go. -- Bill Gates
The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. -- Bill Gates
Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf. -- Bill Gates
We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners. -- Bill Gates
Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news. -- Bill Gates
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs. -- Bill Gates
Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. -- Bill Gates
Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you're interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all. -- Bill Gates
No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork. -- Bill Gates
As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead. -- Bill Gates
Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over. -- Bill Gates
Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. -- Bill Gates
Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people. -- Bill Gates
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. -- Bill Gates
You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down. -- Bill Gates
I get more spam than anyone I know. -- Bill Gates
I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has. -- Bill Gates
It's hard to improve public education - that's clear. -- Bill Gates
It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy. -- Bill Gates
Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education. -- Bill Gates
There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive. -- Bill Gates
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful. -- Bill Gates
In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively. -- Bill Gates
We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can. -- Bill Gates
The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era. -- Bill Gates
In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now. -- Bill Gates
The microprocessor is a miracle. -- Bill Gates
Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it. -- Bill Gates
Well, I went for a ride but I didn't find my car -- Bill Gates
You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. -- Bill Gates
Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally. -- Bill Gates
The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive. -- Bill Gates
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole. -- Bill Gates
Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. -- Bill Gates
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. -- Bill Gates
Eventually, all companies are replaced. -- Bill Gates
Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end. -- Bill Gates
I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool. -- Bill Gates
My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people. -- Bill Gates
There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing. -- Bill Gates
Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities. -- Bill Gates
AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma. -- Bill Gates
Rich countries can afford to overpay for things. -- Bill Gates
Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts. -- Bill Gates
I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact. -- Bill Gates
We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk. -- Bill Gates
We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's created the worldwide software industry that ... that is so very competitive and moving so quickly. -- Bill Gates
Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual. -- Bill Gates
No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO. -- Bill Gates
Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created. -- Bill Gates
I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity. -- Bill Gates
(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it. -- Bill Gates
The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant. -- Bill Gates
Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online. -- Bill Gates
I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom. -- Bill Gates
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school. -- Bill Gates
Success is a lousy teacher. -- Bill Gates
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone. -- Bill Gates
Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now. -- Bill Gates
The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time. -- Bill Gates
Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. -- Bill Gates
The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty. -- Bill Gates
If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. -- Bill Gates
Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out beyond Internet search, but I think the expectations won't live up to reality. -- Bill Gates
Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women from the villages, getting them the vaccines and asking them to go around and find the children. -- Bill Gates
People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video. -- Bill Gates
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. -- Bill Gates
And knowledge management is a means, not an end. -- Bill Gates
OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known. -- Bill Gates
When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation. -- Bill Gates
If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business. -- Bill Gates
Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software. -- Bill Gates
Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they ... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say. -- Bill Gates
Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. -- Bill Gates
When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it. -- Bill Gates
Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large. -- Bill Gates
I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills. -- Bill Gates
The most important thing was the creation of a ... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software. -- Bill Gates
I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on. -- Bill Gates
Be nice to nerds,,, one day u might have to work for one -- Bill Gates
As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice ... -- Bill Gates
I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. -- Bill Gates
I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large. -- Bill Gates
The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into. -- Bill Gates
You've got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing. -- Bill Gates
Death is something we really understand extremely well. -- Bill Gates
When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much. -- Bill Gates
There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with ... nobody can ever improve the software. -- Bill Gates
I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth. -- Bill Gates
Taxes are an investment in America. -- Bill Gates
Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was. -- Bill Gates
The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health. -- Bill Gates
Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world -- Bill Gates
The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. -- Bill Gates
We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year. -- Bill Gates
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines ... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. -- Bill Gates
Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.' -- Bill Gates
If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States. -- Bill Gates
Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas. -- Bill Gates
This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing. -- Bill Gates
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. -- Bill Gates
My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy. -- Bill Gates
The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration. -- Bill Gates
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down. -- Bill Gates
Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time. -- Bill Gates
Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation. -- Bill Gates
The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software. -- Bill Gates
Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings. -- Bill Gates
The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at ... good developers like working with each other. And they ... they reinforce each other's skills. -- Bill Gates
Long-term vision and product strategy. -- Bill Gates
Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains. -- Bill Gates
Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another. -- Bill Gates
The concept of this so-called "TerraPower reactor" is that you, in the same reactor, you both burn and breed. So, instead of making plutonium and then extracting it, we take uranium - the 99.3 percent that you normally don't do anything with - we convert that, and we burn it. -- Bill Gates
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. -- Bill Gates
If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all - including the poorest. -- Bill Gates
There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil. -- Bill Gates
When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision". -- Bill Gates
No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer -- Bill Gates
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' ... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover. -- Bill Gates
I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things. -- Bill Gates
The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages. -- Bill Gates
You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses -- Bill Gates
For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. -- Bill Gates
Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible. -- Bill Gates
There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively. -- Bill Gates
Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing. -- Bill Gates
People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten. -- Bill Gates
Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids. -- Bill Gates
The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree. -- Bill Gates
When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand,the whole world forget who you are.It's life. -- Bill Gates
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.' -- Bill Gates
We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past. -- Bill Gates
When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large? -- Bill Gates
The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps. -- Bill Gates
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. -- Bill Gates
I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems. -- Bill Gates
If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles. -- Bill Gates
Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them. -- Bill Gates
Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions. -- Bill Gates
I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive. -- Bill Gates
People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then. -- Bill Gates
I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes. -- Bill Gates
I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. -- Bill Gates
Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming. -- Bill Gates
I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product. -- Bill Gates
My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet. -- Bill Gates
You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well. -- Bill Gates
We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy and the government. -- Bill Gates
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. -- Bill Gates
No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime! -- Bill Gates
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. -- Bill Gates
Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device. -- Bill Gates
I did not even finish my studies -- Bill Gates
Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up. -- Bill Gates
Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing. -- Bill Gates
There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking. -- Bill Gates
The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products. -- Bill Gates
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. -- Bill Gates
In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil. -- Bill Gates
Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent. -- Bill Gates
There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that. -- Bill Gates
Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement. -- Bill Gates
I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. -- Bill Gates
Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change. -- Bill Gates
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it. -- Bill Gates
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. -- Bill Gates
We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time. -- Bill Gates
It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof. -- Bill Gates
People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that. -- Bill Gates
Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil. -- Bill Gates
The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill. -- Bill Gates
If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. -- Bill Gates
The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking. -- Bill Gates
Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download. -- Bill Gates
In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable. -- Bill Gates
I don't believe in creating dynastic wealth.
I don't really believe that in a society that aspires to be meritocratic and that believes in equality of opportunity - my kids have had advantage over 99 percent of the kids in the country ... -- Bill Gates
Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen. -- Bill Gates
Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government. -- Bill Gates
The government is there day in and day out, if you want all kids to have education, if you want to run courts, if you want to have an army, if you want to have roads, you've got to have the taxation system that funds everything that you expect. -- Bill Gates