Bill Gates Quotes on Imagination & Visualization (12 Quotes)

long-term vision and product strategy.

We think we'll revolutionize how people do things in the workplace by bringing streaming media and Microsoft Office together in a combined vision,

You want to have more information that you can just glance at and work with in a very simple way. The idea of a big screen that uses your full field of vision makes sense to us.

The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things lik

People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, ... There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA personal digital assistant as we are.

The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.

So the vision of Microsoft is pretty simple. It changed a couple years ago. For the first 25 years of the company, it was a personal computer on every desk and in every home. And it was a very good vision very rare for a company to be able to stick with something like that for 25 years. The reason we changed it was simply that it became acceptable. . . . And so as we stepped back and looked at what we were trying to do with the programming model, turning the Internet into the fabric for distributed computing, getting your information to replicate in a very invisible way so that it was available to you everywhere, thinking of this programming model spanning all the different devices, we changed to the mission statement we have now, which is empowering people through great software anytime, any place and on any device.

This is a space that we see as critical to our vision,

To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

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

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past.