Bill Gates Quotes
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Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.
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The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.
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Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
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The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
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Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.
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I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.
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America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U.S. has an amazing lead.
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Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.
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The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.
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I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.
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Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.
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Certain teams are more careful in what they write. They generate less bugs. You can know that but it still doesn't mean there might be there might not be one bug that would be bad to ship the product with.
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If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
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Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.
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Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.
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This philanthropy work is even more fascinating. It requires us to think harder about how we build partnerships, who we get behind. And yet we get to see progress that in some ways is even more profound than the great advances that digital technology has provided.
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When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.
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The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
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Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.
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When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
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Vision without execution is daydreaming.
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If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!
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Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
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When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was there?" But people were traveling around after the war, and that meant the force of infection was much higher. And the problem is that the rate of travel back then was dramatically less than what we have nowadays.