Bill Gates Quotes
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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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I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
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Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
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I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.
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People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.
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A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.
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The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. That your sense of justice says, why should rich kids - who barely get these diseases and almost never die of them - why should they get the vaccines, when poor kids, who actually do die from these diseases, don't get those things? It's an unbelievable inequity that there isn't that access.
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If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.
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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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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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Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.
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I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.
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We work with whoever is elected. Some will bring a more generous, open view of the world than others.
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When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.
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Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.
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The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
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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.
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That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.
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People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.
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With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there are no real preparations. That, if it got out and spread, would be a larger number.
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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.
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By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.
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The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.
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Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.