Bill Gates Quotes
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We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.
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It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.
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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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In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.
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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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My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.
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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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Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.
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There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.
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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
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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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I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.
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When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?
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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
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Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
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You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.
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Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.
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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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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
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There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business...
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I believe in generous aid policies.
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We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
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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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I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.