Bill Gates Quotes

The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

Windows 95 was a nice milestone.

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.

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.

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

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.

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

I reboot [my Windows PC] every night.

My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.

The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

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.

Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

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.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

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.

The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health.

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

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.

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'

In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.

Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

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.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

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.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

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.

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.