Bill Gates Quotes
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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.
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If you're a guest at my $113 million house, you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.
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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.
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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
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Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.
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Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.
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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.
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Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.
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I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
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When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.
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I think of myself as a global citizen.
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We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.
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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.
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Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.
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We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course Barack Obama, although he had budget constraints, he believed in these things; a lot of new initiatives, including in agriculture.
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Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.
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I was announcing to the public, in 2006, that I'd be leaving Microsoft in a couple of years and focusing full-time on the foundation. That was the time at which we went back to New York and Warren [Buffett] announced these gifts to a number of foundations, with a very high percentage of it going to us and basically doubling our capacity.
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When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.
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R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves and the world and our economy have been very, very clear. I'm hopeful we can make a very strong case there. Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.
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The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.
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We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.
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I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.
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In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
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People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.