Bill Gates Quotes

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Bridge is the king of all card games.

There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

Often you just have to rely on your intuition.

My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?

Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.

If I had one dollar left, I'd spend it on PR

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

I'm not a macroeconomics person.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

Inspiration starts somewhere.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

If I only had two dollars left I would spend one dollar on PR.

Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

The microprocessor is a miracle.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

People everywhere love Windows.

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

I'm cooler than you. WAAAY cooler.

Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.

I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.

The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening.

If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

Computers and games don't waste time - people do.

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.