Bill Gates Quotes
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When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.
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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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Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.
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Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
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Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.
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The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
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The UK is a very international country.
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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 went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.
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I believe in generous aid policies.
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Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.
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Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.
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I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.
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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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Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
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The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.
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There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
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The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.
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There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.
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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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Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
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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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Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?
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While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.