Bill Gates Quotes
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Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free...
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Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.
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Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you're interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all.
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The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.
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The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.
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Over 80% of the poor are people who have small plots of land and grow their own food and they don't grow enough to sell much into the marketplace. So they will be hit hard by the worst in climate. They really get hit hard starting in the 20-year time frame and thereafter.
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In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.
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The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
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If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.
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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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People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.
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Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.
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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.
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Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.
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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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The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.
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I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.
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In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.
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Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.
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Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.
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Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.
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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.
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I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.
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If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.