Bill Gates Quotes
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We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives.
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Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.
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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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In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
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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 were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.
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Death is something we really understand extremely well.
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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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Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
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... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!
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I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.
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You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.
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The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.
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In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's.
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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
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I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.
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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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I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.
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I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.
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We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other.
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We in Microsoft are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
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Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.
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The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.