Bill Gates Quotes
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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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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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With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.
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The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.
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A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
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How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.
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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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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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Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
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We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
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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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By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but in fact, Melinda and I are struck by how many people think the world is getting worse. The belief that the world can’t solve extreme poverty and disease isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful. That’s why in this year’s letter we take apart some of the myths that slow down the work. The next time you hear these myths, we hope you will do the same.
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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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The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.
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We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.
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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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Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company...
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You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
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Learn from your unhappy customers.
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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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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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If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.
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Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.
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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."