Bill Gates Quotes
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People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.
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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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I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.
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It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.
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I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.
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The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.
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Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
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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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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
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If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.
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I don't think culture is something you can describe.
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Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up.
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If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things.
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The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.
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There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.
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How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.
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To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.
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I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.
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My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
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Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
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Our leadership in Microsoft has that - "hey, we are the best in certain ways," and so we get the best people. That any kind of positive dynamic is quite good, so I love what's going on there, it's fun.
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I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.
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When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security.
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Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.