Top 100 Quotes About Bill Gates
#1. The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.
Bill Gates
#2. That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.
Bill Gates
#3. We will never make a 32-bit operating system.
Bill Gates
#4. Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it's you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
Bill Gates
#6. In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.
Bill Gates
#7. The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.
Bill Gates
#8. If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
Will.i.am
#9. I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.
Bill Gates
#10. India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.
Bill Gates
#11. We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.
Bill Gates
#12. Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever ...
Bill Gates
#13. Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
Bill Gates
#14. To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.
Bill Gates
#15. I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.
Bill Gates
#16. Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.
Bill Gates
#17. 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.
Bill Gates
#18. In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.
Bill Gates
#19. My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
Bill Gates
#21. There's nothing nice about Steve Jobs and there's nothing evil about Bill Gates
Chuck Peddle
#22. In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.
Bill Gates
#23. The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.
Bill Gates
#24. There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.
Bill Gates
#25. I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.
Bill Gates
#26. I get more spam than anyone I know.
Bill Gates
#27. Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.
Bill Gates
#28. You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.
Bill Gates
#29. In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.
Bill Gates
#30. It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.
Bill Gates
#31. The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
Bill Gates
#32. The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
Bill Gates
#33. A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes; let's expand ourselves intellectually.
Denis Dutton
#34. There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.
Bill Gates
#35. Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
Bill Gates
#36. In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.
Bill Gates
#37. I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.
Bill Gates
#38. Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.
Bill Gates
#39. It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.
Bill Gates
#40. Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
Bill Gates
#41. Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.
Bill Gates
#42. I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.
Bill Gates
#43. A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.
Bill Gates
#44. A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.
Bill Gates
#45. It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.
Bill Gates
#46. I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.
Bill Gates
#47. Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.
Bill Gates
#48. It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.
Bill Gates
#49. Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.
Bill Gates
#50. There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of ... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice.
Bill Gates
#51. Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult.
Bill Gates
#52. And knowledge management is a means, not an end.
Bill Gates
#53. People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.
Bill Gates
#54. With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case.
Bill Gates
#55. At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level.
Bill Gates
#56. The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.
Frank Luntz
#57. On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.
Bill Gates
#58. I don't think there's a ... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.
Bill Gates
#59. The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.
Bill Gates
#60. In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity : Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist.
Neal Stephenson
#61. If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It starts to balance out.
Bill Gates
#62. The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
Bill Gates
#63. I think there will be PCs at every price point.
Bill Gates
#64. Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
Bill Gates
#65. Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.
Bill Gates
#66. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates
#67. The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Bill Gates
#68. The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
Bill Gates
#69. Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.
Bill Gates
#70. Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
#72. I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.
Bill Gates
#73. Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.
Bill Gates
#74. When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.
Bill Gates
#75. Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
Bill Gates
#76. 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.
Bill Gates
#77. When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
Bill Gates
#78. Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
Bill Gates
#79. 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.
Bill Gates
#80. Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
Bill Gates
#81. Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.
Erik Naggum
#82. In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you'd be more likely to slow things down.
Bill Gates
#83. I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
Bill Gates
#84. A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.
Bill Gates
#85. And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing.
Steve Jobs
#86. I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.
Bill Gates
#87. The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.
Bill Gates
#88. Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy
Bill Gates
#89. Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company
Bill Gates
#90. People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.
Bill Gates
#91. I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.
Bill Gates
#92. If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.
Bill Gates
#93. The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.
Bill Gates
#94. So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
Ted Nelson
#95. The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.
Bill Gates
#96. Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'
Bill Gates
#97. Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.
Bill Gates
#98. 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.
Bill Gates
#99. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#100. The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
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