Bill Gates Quotes on Computers & Technology (38 Quotes)

We also had the tragic events of September 11th, and I know for everyone that's caused us to step back, think about our priorities. It's a tragedy that affects us personally and affects our businesses. For the computer industry in particular, I think it highlights the importance of security, giving that far more importance than we've had in the past. We don't want our digital systems to have weaknesses that allow for tragedies, exploiting the weaknesses that are there. And so there's a renewed sense of focus on that.

The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk ... and with a tiny little screen.

We're changing the world with technology.

This is clearly the most massive attempt at government regulation of the technology industry ever.

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

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

We view this as a major milestone. Our original vision of a computer on every desk and every home, we've made amazing progress on that. This organization will allow us to do that faster.

It is certainly a dream come true in that we set a computer on every desk in every home and have the level of sales and profitability and employees we have today,

No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. - said in the early 1970s

I never would have predicted it. I didn't set out to achieve some level of wealth or size of company. 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

This will continue, ... They'll have a new version, we'll have a new version. It's a healthy competition that you expect in the computer software market.

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

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

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.

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.

Nathan has been an invaluable contributor to Microsoft, the technology industry and to me personally over the past 13 years. Frankly, I would rather he continue his work at Microsoft, but I support his decision to take a much needed break and explore his passion for science.

I thought digital technology would eventually reverse urbanization, and so far that hasn't happened. But people always overestimate how much will change in the next three years, and they underestimate how much will change over the next 10 years.

Technology has always been about making the impossible possible, and with Windows XP we hope to do just that, open up new possibilities.

The message that personal computers can do neat things, that software is great stuff, that there's an exciting opportunity here and Microsoft is involved in it, that's a worthwhile message for Microsoft to get out.

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

It's no exaggeration to say that the kind of innovation going on in Israel is critical to the future of the technology business,

It's very exciting to renew our commitment to the Macintosh. We're very pleased to be supporting Apple. We think Apple makes a huge contribution to the computer industry.

This is a key element of the technology industry getting re-energized and putting productivity back into other sectors of the economy that can get the economy back to where it was a couple of years ago,

I'm excited by the possibilities I see for medicine, for education and of course for technology, ... And I believe that through our natural inventiveness, creativity and willingness to solve tough problems, we're going to make some amazing achievements in all these areas in my lifetime.

I believe that computers are the most incredible tool we can use to feed our curiosity and inventiveness -- to help us solve problems that even the smartest people couldn't solve on their own, ... All Things Considered.

This is a difficult time for our nation and our economy. While this settlement imposes new rules and regulations, we believe that settling the case now is the right thing to do for our customers, for the technology industry and for the economy,

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

Israel has enormous power in the high-tech world ... most people know that Israel, relative to its size, has made achievements in the field of technology,

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

The best way to prepare to be a programmer is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.

I think if you go out five years from now, and look at portable computers, virtually all of those will have this tablet capability.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

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.

Part of India's great success in the IT sector comes from the fantastic investment that the government has made over decades in institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology. India only has six or seven million seats at its universities, and it will need 20 to 25 million, so I think this is a great opportunity to rethink the idea of a university.