Bill Gates Quotes
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.
Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.
I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.
Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.
I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it
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.
With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.
DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.
My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy.
The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work."
The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.
Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.
In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.
The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning
Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.
If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.
Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.
When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.
Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
