Bill Gates Quotes

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.

How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.

There's life and death in every email.

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].

The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

I don't think I would have spent time learning about the immune system if understanding vaccines weren't something I considered very important.

Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

Life is not fair get used to used to it

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

The best teacher is very interactive.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.

And knowledge management is a means, not an end.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.

The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.

Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.