Bill Gates Quotes

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

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.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

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.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.

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.

If something's 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?

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.

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.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

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.

I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

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.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.

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.

Today, the issue isn’t quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop.

The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for the next pandemic.

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.

The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

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.

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

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.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

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.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

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.

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.

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.

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.

There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.