Bill Gates Quotes

I've for some reason or other... never met Donald Trump.

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down.

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.

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.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free

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.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

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.

... 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!

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.

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

Taxes are an investment in America.

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.

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

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.

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.

There is no doubt PC prices will be coming down.

My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.

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.

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.

The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.

Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.