Bill Gates Quotes (412 Quotes)

Demands that Microsoft completely hide its Windows user interface and its Internet technology from PC users, and that we ship Netscape's competing software in every copy of Windows, all appear to benefit a single competitor at the expense of consumers,

I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into.

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.

Certainly, we are trying to preserve all of that culture, and get the advantages of being a large company with a broad product line, with stability, worldwide presence, great support, and yet have the advantages that a small software company has.

you'd have to look out three years into the future.

It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy.

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

It may seem strange to have somebody who works at the very lowest end of computing here addressing the supercomputing audience,

Microsoft and MTV Networks have combined their strengths to dramatically redefine how Windows users discover and enjoy music.

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.

This means at least several years of confusion.

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

Confirmed for a summer 2007 release, you can bet Bill Gates is pumped about Jackson's involvement. Peter Jackson is one of Hollywood's most exciting innovators, and our partnership with him will greatly broaden the appeal of the Halo franchise, ... We're confident he'll create an epic that not only thrills existing Halo fans, but also introduces millions of moviegoers around the world to this amazing saga.

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.

Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

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.

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

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.

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.

The initial shipments of Xbox 360 will be based on today's DVD format. We are looking at whether future versions of Xbox 360 will incorporate an additional capability of an HD DVD player or something else.

If they want we will give them a sleeping bag, but there is something romantic about sleeping under the desk. They want to do it.

The opportunity to engage people who are very far away from each other and yet might have interesting information is better here than has ever been possible.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

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

The amount of time we spend here and having our people here full-time is definitely on the increase,

Well, Larry predicted that the software industry would consolidate, and through billions of dollars in his spending, he's managed to make his prediction come true,

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.

Happy Valentine's Day. My other invitation was to go quail hunting with Dick Cheney.

That kernel operating system ... is not the key area, it is the software you have to buy on top of that to deal with management, security and directories and things like that.

Steve will absolutely be the business leader, ... I decided I wanted to spend more time with our product groups and drive the breakthroughs. Think of Steve as the business leader and customer champion.

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

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

This coming 'services wave' will be very disruptive, ... We have competitors who will seize on these approaches and challenge us still, the opportunity to lead is very clear.

Anytime we have new forms of communication, it changes behavior whether it is political or business or any type of behavior. Radio and TV did that. The PC will be classed as big or bigger an advancement in communications than those devices were.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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

I am impressed by what I have seen today.

This is a business where there's no way to get in small. You have to be totally committed.

I can say without hesitation that it is not, nor has it ever been, the intention of my company to turn the Information Superhighway into a toll road.

But as long as there is year-by-year progress, it holds a great opportunity for us in terms of scale, which helps us do more, and it's a great place where we have people working for us.

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

But we also believe that by connecting into the world of personal productivity, we can also do something very different.

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

People everywhere love Windows.

Your time is a valuable resource.

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.

XML facilitates a new world of experience and services, ... XML transforms productivity tools and databases and brings even more profound changes than HTML (the Internet's hypertext markup language) brought.

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