Bill Gates Quotes on Telephones (9 Quotes)

The one top problem we've got in hardware advances is getting everybody connected at high speeds...Most people even five years from now will probably still be connected through the phone line,

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

Between the better phone, small screen devices, better PC and the wireless environment, it's a whole new world of communications,

Consumers are getting more connected, and software is the center of that. The idea of holding meetings is different. The phone is different. That's because software is the center of it.

Well before the case was filed Microsoft did everything it could to try and settle the case. In fact, there were about 10 days when day and night I was on the phone and made every effort I could.

I think five or six years ago, if you'd said to people that software would be incredible in terms of making photos better, music better, TV better, phone calls very different, they would have been quite skeptical, they would have thought, 'How can software do that Now, particularly in music and to some degree in TV, they've seen that it makes a huge difference. It allows them to pick the things that they're interested in, it allows them to see it when they want to, to share with friends what they've seen and what they like.

Four or five years from now, you will wonder when somebody called up to get technical support how they just used the phone to try and describe what was going on with their PC.

There has never been any discussion about us (buying) any part of a phone company, British Telecom or any other phone company,

The phone is very different. The idea of a meeting is very different.