Bill Gates Quotes

U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.

Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.

Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.

You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

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.

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

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.

The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.

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.

There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

We work with whoever is elected. Some will bring a more generous, open view of the world than others.

I didn't completed my University Education

There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

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.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

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.

Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.

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.

Africa is on the rise.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

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.

The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

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

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)

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.

The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. I get very concerned when people talk about cutting education budgets.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.

(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.

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.

Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

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.

Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.