Bill Gates Quotes on People (43 Quotes)

Software is redefining how people do things, ... We're nowhere near what we can do.

I've been struck by the role that technology plays and especially that the Internet played during this crisis. On September 11th hundreds of millions of people relied on the Internet to get news and to communicate with loved ones.

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.

We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, ''surrounding'' a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

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.

A lot of people have a very narrow definition of a PC,

We need to move beyond voice to voice and data, ... Microsoft can do this by bringing all the pieces together. And once we do, we are really going to surprise people.

We're not even giving you a time-frame. In fact, a lot of people who got the prototype code said, 'Hey this looks pretty good. Gee, you must be close to getting this done.' Because of all the integration and the extreme high level of quality, there's still quite a bit to be done.

There's been a lot of misinformation put out by the competitors, ... We will always stand for the PC industry -- high volume, low prices, rapid innovation. People who stand against the PC industry, I don't think they'll be successful.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

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

People hate, hate, hate to subscribe to things on the Internet.

Although (the Y2K problem) is a terrible distraction and there will be some disruption, there has been a little bit of a windfall for some participants in the IT industry, ... below the middle of the panic (levels) some people have suggested.

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

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

You've got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams, give them excellent tools...so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing. Make it very clear what they can do to change the spec. Make them feel 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.

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.

I'd say that my job, throughout all this, has been, I think, the most fun job I can imagine having. And partly the people I've gotten to work with outside the company. Certainly there are great people inside the company. And certainly, for at least a

People everywhere love Windows.

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

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a part of yourself that you've put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way.

I see if people are around, see what they put up on the walls. I want a little sense of what the feeling is, how lively, how much people personalize things. They put industry articles up on the walls, ones that are particularly rude to us or particul

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.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

These new offerings demonstrate how software is evolving through the power of services in ways that enable more dynamic and relevant experiences for people. Our goal is to make Windows, Office and Xbox further come alive for our customers at work, home and play.

Windows and the consumer electronics industry are changing dramatically, people live in a world with more digital content and information than ever before.

Fundamentally, world trade, if you block it, the big losers will be the poor people.

To relieve the pressures of programming, Evans took up mountain climbing. One day Gates got a call from the headmaster Evans had been killed in a fall. I had never thought of people dying, ... At the service, I was supposed to speak, but I couldn't get up. For two weeks I couldn't do anything at all.

committed to continue to hire great people, listen to customers, invest in future research and development, and create the next great generation of software.

Reliability is top of the list (of Windows 2000 features) ... People don't want to reboot their systems ever,

With Windows, people have a vast choice of tools, applications and devices to start anything they like.

Capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

A year ago, 90 percent of the people who bought speech recognition programs didn't use them,

We believe that by taking business processes and making them very visual, very explicit, people can edit processes and see status of processes. We can do something that's quite different than ever before.

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

Terror is the war of poor people, and suicide bombs are the weapons of poor people.

It's a concept that in the past might have been thought of as an executive information system that was just for a few top people, ... It'd take millions of dollars to set up, the system would be hard-wired, and it would provide only a subset of data. Today, in literally minutes you can add data and status reports and your personal digital dashboard will update that.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

In most companies, you don't get too much mail where people are saying, 'Hey, we lost this account.' But that's what you really need to know about, because it might change what you're doing. You need to know about competitive activity. You need to kn

A big focus for us has been reliability. People don't want their video interrupted,