Bill Gates Quotes
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You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs.
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There is this thing called the GPL Gnu Public Licence, which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
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Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company...
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Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
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I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to their best performance and really throw themselves into it, you know, spend all these hours in there and ah, give it their... give it their best that optimism plays a role.
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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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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.
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Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even more than other developed countries.
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The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.
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Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
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The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.
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In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.
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We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !
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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?
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That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.
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I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the private sector, which is the biggest by far, and then the governments, you know, even in these poor countries over time has to take on these key responsibilities. How does philanthropy accelerate that? Drive the kind of innovations, make sure they get used well. So it plays this kind of special role.
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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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If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.
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You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
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Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work."
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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
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DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
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If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.
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The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.