Bill Gates Quotes
- All Quotes
-
I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.
-
The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have to flip the pages of the Manhattan phone book to find a specific name, how would you approach the problem? If a spider fell to the bottom of a 50-foot well, and each day climbed up 3 feet and slipped back 2, how many days would it take the spider to get out of the well?
-
With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.
-
If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.
-
Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
-
Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.
-
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.
-
We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.
-
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 way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
-
My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted.
-
The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.
-
We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.
-
Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.
-
The microprocessor is a miracle.
-
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
-
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.
-
Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.
-
One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'
-
I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.
-
Melinda Gates is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.
-
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.
-
The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
-
If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.