Bill Gates Quotes (412 Quotes)

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist.

Building a Digital Nervous System does not require some huge new investment in hardware and software. In fact, most companies have the key building blocks today.

But the government made some non-negotiable demands that were very surprising to us,

Whether it's real-time communications, the speed or the consumer scenarios like photos and music, we're creating a platform that not only has what we're calling new experiences built in, but creates overall opportunity for third parties,

Building on our strengths as a software company, X-Box will offer game developers a powerful platform and game enthusiasts an incredible experience, ... We want X-Box to be the platform of choice for the best and most creative game developers in the world.

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.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

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.

The legal process can be hard on anyone who goes through it, and the last four years have been challenging for all of us here at Microsoft, and for me personally, ... But despite the many twists and turns in the case, I've always had faith in our company and our employees and in the magic of the software we're creating.

There are no bugs in any Microsoft software that the majority of users want fixed.

The goals and the deal are quite different, so obviously they would have known they are quite different,

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

Some global health problems, like AIDS, have no easy solution -- but this isn't one of them. The world has an opportunity to stop millions of newborn deaths each year.

You could say this is a bet-the-company kind of thing,

All operating systems, including IBM's, Sun's, Apple's and many others are including Internet browsing capabilities, ... The beauty of the Internet is its openness. It cannot be controlled or dominated or cut off because it is simply a constantly changing series of linkages.

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

Biology has improved, so the chance of having new medicines and vaccines are stronger today than ever,

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

Let's drive not just breakthroughs in new products, but new ways to give more and more people access to these inventions and their benefits. This is a broad and important mission, and I believe we all have a part to play in it.

is the best platform for the Internet.

We need to make it easier for people to visualize information that comes from different directions,

This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.

The introduction of the hand-held PC with Windows CE is a critical milestone in Microsoft 's continuing strategy to bring the popularity and ease of use to Windows to new categories of information devices,

That license is concrete proof of government commitment to strengthen the awareness and the activities around intellectual property.

This is an exciting evolution for me, ... and a very good transition for the company.

Software will be the single most important force in digital entertainment over the next decade, ... XNA underscores Microsoft's commitment to the game industry and our desire to work with partners to take the industry to the next level.

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.

Absolutely. It's not going to happen overnight, and we should take the tools we have today and get those applied, because we can save half the lives just that way,

If you give people tools, and they use their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

With breakthroughs that will come over the next two decades, yes, we can make malaria in the whole world like it is in the United States today, something that we just don't have to worry about,

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,

Millions of children have died from malaria because they were not protected by an insecticide-treated bed net or did not receive effective treatment, ... If we expand malaria control programs and invest what's needed in (research and development), we can stop this tragedy.

The potential for all these exciting devices, smart objects and services to enrich and enhance the way we live is truly amazing.

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.

This is the first time in our 25-year history we've actually changed our vision statement,

The average consumer lives in a world of more digital content and information than ever before. Windows Vista will make personal computing more useful, powerful, connected and fun, redefining both how we use computers in our homes and how we are entertained.

Microsoft has been in India for 15 years now, and our commitment continues to grow. India's exceptional IT talent and vibrant local ISV industry is helping to empower a truly global knowledge economy.

Today the university combines many elements - great lectures, study groups, students in the lab - and the lecture piece should be broken off. The very best lectures from India or the U.S. or Britain will be available in streaming video, so students can consume that wherever they want and don't have to go do that all together in one place.

It's fun to be here. This is my first visit to the university so I thought I'd drop by.

There's really only one that they've done a leadership thing in, which is in search, and search today is very poor compared to what it will be even a year or two years from now -- their search, our search, everybody's search. So there's so much room to do better, to have that work well with the other offerings.

I hear they're coming out with a robot that will cook hamburgers, too. Let's spread that rumor - there's nothing they can't do.

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.

Advances in our understanding of the human genome promise to revolutionize medicine and open the door to therapies that are tailored to individuals.

I don't think you'd be interviewing me if we were any less nimble. You'd be writing our epitaph.

You've got the weight on me, I'll give you that.

My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.

My value is still so much higher than I ever expected it to be by a factor of about 50. So the fact that at one point it was say, a factor of 60, well -- that wealth is all going back to society anyway.