Quotes About Technology Bill Gates

#1. The two areas that are changing ... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.

Bill Gates

#2. Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.

Bill Gates

#3. Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Bill Gates

#4. There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

Bill Gates

#5. [Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

Bill Gates

#6. 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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#7. Bill Gates is a very rich man today ... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

Dave Barry

#8. There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

Bill Gates

#9. We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

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#10. While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always work.

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#11. If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Bill Gates

#12. Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence

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#13. I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

Bill Gates

#14. Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

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#15. The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.

Douglas Adams

#16. Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Bill Gates

#17. Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' ... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.

Bill Gates

#18. Many years ago, Bill Gates said that one day we'd be able to click on the shoes of a character in a TV show and buy them online. Whether that happens or not, are you thinking about new ways to combine your assets in programming, customer knowledge, and technology?

Brian L. Roberts

#19. Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement, and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care.

Bill Gates

#20. I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.

Bill Gates

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Bill Gates

#24. 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.

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#25. 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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#26. Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage.

Jonathan Raymond

#27. Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

Bill Gates

#28. The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

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#29. Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever ...

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#30. The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Bill Gates

#31. People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

Bill Gates

#32. Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.

Bill Gates

#33. The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Bill Gates

#34. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

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#35. By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

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#36. Jobs would have ever have asserted that Bill Gates was not serious about technology. He was a huge pioneer in that world, albeit doing something quite different in approach from what Steve did. He was dismissive of Gates' foundation work as something he did to make himself feel better.

Alex Gibney

#37. Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

Bill Gates