Bill Gates Quotes
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If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.… The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can.
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Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.
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Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.
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If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
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OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.
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As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.
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Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
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If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
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He Steve Jobs showed me the boat he was working on … and talked about how he's looking forward to being on it, even though we both knew there was a good chance that wouldn't happen.
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Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
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To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.
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Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
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I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else.
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The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
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Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be.
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Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
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Software is more important than hardware.
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In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.
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Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.
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The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.
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It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
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I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.
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Even in some of our vaccine areas, like an AIDS vaccine, things have taken longer than we expected, but we have the pipeline of tools. The biological information that we have that gives us insights is fantastic.
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Change the boundaries of business.