Bill Gates Quotes (412 Quotes)

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

We firmly believe that if enough members of the business community step forward, applying positive employment policies in their own workforce and mentoring other companies, that fact will change.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Security is one of the few things that, if we don't do it right, could take this vision I have talked about and really hold it back,

It's no exaggeration to say that the kind of innovation going on in Israel is critical to the future of the technology business,

I have a very strong optimism, not just about our activities here, but about all the new developments taking place in the country.

removes the cloud of breakup from the company, reverses the tying claim and says clearly that we did not attempt to monopolize the browser market.

Jeez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type.

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.

It's very exciting to renew our commitment to the Macintosh. We're very pleased to be supporting Apple. We think Apple makes a huge contribution to the computer industry.

The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.

Encore implies that life is not a continuous process, that there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life. For me, there are a lot of exciting things in front of me at Microsoft, things that we want to see if we can make ha

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

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

Software is providing power, but software has got to provide simplicity. And that's why our investment levels are going up, investments in the toughest problems security, privacy, speech recognition, video recognition, and all of those things will fold into this platform.

is quite an amazing thing, given that they had a lawsuit against us and we were really mostly in conflict. We have a great, ongoing dialogue with them, including them guiding us on the concerns of other content companies.

During Paul's 14 years with Microsoft, he has played a key role in virtually every major initiative, from the evolution of Windows and Office to the .NET strategy.

This is a key element of the technology industry getting re-energized and putting productivity back into other sectors of the economy that can get the economy back to where it was a couple of years ago,

Ray has long demonstrated his passion for software, and through his work at Groove he also came to realize the transformative potential for combining software and services.

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

This collaboration is a case where I think that even what's available now is vastly underutilized around the world,

Although it is almost eliminated in rich countries, it's still one of the biggest killers worldwide. This is a very tough disease.

It's been shown that most people download viruses unwittingly-they don't know they're doing it until it's too late. That's what I mean here. We're talking about protecting the consumer.

allowed us to get to where we are today.

We don't think there'll be a huge swing to one model at the expense of the other.

I'm excited by the possibilities I see for medicine, for education and of course for technology, ... And I believe that through our natural inventiveness, creativity and willingness to solve tough problems, we're going to make some amazing achievements in all these areas in my lifetime.

I see a lot of change, a lot of opportunity. We're not just talking about taking the advances of the past and suffusing them out into 100 percent of companies. We're talking about new waves, and new ways of thinking about the Internet, and that's going to keep all of our jobs very, very exciting.

Our vision connecting the world of PC's and TV's has long included advanced broadband capabilities to deliver video, data and interactivity to the home,

Often you just have to rely on your intuition.

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.

Streaming media is an area we really believe in. We're investing heavily in it and it's going to become a mainstream part of the PC and the Web-device experience,

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 keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

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.

Who can afford to do professional work for nothing What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software.

This is a difficult time for our nation and our economy. While this settlement imposes new rules and regulations, we believe that settling the case now is the right thing to do for our customers, for the technology industry and for the economy,

Password systems today just aren't cutting it. I'm not pretending that we're going to move away from passwords overnight, but for corporate systems, this change can happen over three to four years.

Every five years or so we look at our strategy and make one of these big bets.

There's more opportunity for software than there has ever been ... in a sense, you can say that you haven't seen anything yet,

Life is not fair; get used to it.

We are embarking on the richest series of product releases in our company's 30-year history. Beyond the opportunities this presents for our customers and partners, these new live offerings represent an incredibly powerful way of enabling customers to more quickly access and benefit from the innovations being developed by our product teams.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

It's simply the ingenuity of the software developers -- their brilliance, their energy in coming together and writing these software packages. At Microsoft, we need to recruit the best and the brightest.

It's a big challenge, but we have to make sure that security is not the thing that holds us back.

Most of the other things they have done (are) nowhere near as good as what we or others have done.

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.

We are willing to triple our funding for tuberculosis, and we urge others to do the same. If we have the chance to save 14 million lives, and a clear plan to make it happen, we have an obligation to act.

I find golf very relaxing.it's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.