Bill Gates Quotes
A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.
Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.
We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.
If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things.
Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.
My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.
The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.
We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.
Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.
I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.
Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.
Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.
I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it
Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally.
The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.
Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.
Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.