Bill Gates Quotes

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.

There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.

Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?

Banking is necessary - banks are not.

In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.

If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

The mainstream is always under attack.

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.

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.

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

Learn from your unhappy customers.

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

I get more spam than anyone I know.

I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.

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.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

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.

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.

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.

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

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.

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.

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.

50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take that extra productivity and put it to better use.

Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

Death is something we really understand extremely well.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

(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.

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.

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.

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.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

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.

[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

Started from the chair hop now we here.

Be nice to nerds,,, one day u might have to work for one

I did not even finish my studies

It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'