Bill Gates Quotes

Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

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.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

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.

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.

It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Often you have to rely on intuition.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.

The Internet? We are not interested in it

People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.

Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.

I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.

We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.

America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U.S. has an amazing lead.

Everyone knows about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Now help me spread the word about Giving Tuesday!

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.