Bill Gates Quotes

Hey, size works against excellence.

Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.

Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right.

Married life is a simpler life. Who I spend my time with is established in advance.

When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".

The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products.

Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption.

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

Rules broken today become norms tomorrow.

In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's.

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Software is more important than hardware.

Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.

It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.

Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.

You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.

The UK is a very international country.

I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.

I'll get to see many disease eradications. and we're seeing a lot of progress.

People think about this idea that there's 122 million kids that are alive that would not be if that fatality rate had stayed at the 1990 level, that's 122 million families.

Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like... I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.

I believe in generous aid policies.

The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.

Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Getting the word out that, yes vaccines are great, the safety data's very, very clear, including any of these specific concerns, that's very important to our foundation.

When AIDS emergency broke out and was killing millions in Africa, the Global Fund was created so that a level of generosity would show up and buy the medicines to save those lives.

The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid.

Thinking about impact on children meant adding to the agenda, both the R&D agenda and the delivery agenda, but it's amazing news, even in the scale of other tragedies.

That it's a worldwide thing that families are better off.

I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.

I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.

Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.

Vaccines are extremely well tested; their safety is well understood. The false allegations about vaccines causing autism have been disproven. But there are still echoes out there confusing people.

People in business understand paying money to be more efficient. You can bootstrap markets where the devices are too expensive at first because these are so valuable to some people.

The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.