Bill Gates Quotes
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We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. ... You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.
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If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
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Computers and games don't waste time - people do.
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Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.
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An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.
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The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.
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I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.
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People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
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Information work is thinking work.
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The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening.
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We will never make a 32-bit operating system.
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No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
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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.
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If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.
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Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.
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With polio, we've gone several years with no polio in all of Africa, but now with this we're having to go and mop up in that whole region, so it's a bit of a setback for polio. So in parallel we have to go back and get rid of those cases.
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A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.
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On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.
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In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
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Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.
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We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
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Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.
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American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.
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You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.