Bill Gates Quotes (412 Quotes)

Health care doesn't rise up very high on the agenda on a lot of poor countries, ... I think there are some countries with AIDS epidemics that haven't stepped up to get the message out on the behavioral change, or stepped up to get infrastructure for treatment . And where you have a lack of priority and lack of funding, it just breaks down.

Everything we did that's in that trial, including support for the Internet, it's one of the greatest things we've ever done.

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Hey, I never told anyone to buy my stock Besides, no one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year-if you check, you'll see that that's more than most people make in a lifetime

It's a major milestone. The settlement puts new responsibilities on Microsoft and we accept them. I am personally committed to full compliance. We are committed to being a responsible industry leader.

Jobs in software are really fun jobs. These are not jobs about just closing the door and writing a lot of code.

Digital music is one of the fastest growing segments of the online entertainment industry, and by promoting Rhapsody's subscription music services from within MSN, we will provide a better experience for our users.

WWW Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

could be read to ban Microsoft from competing in any product category. I know such a ban would be unreasonable, and yet that is what the language of Section 8 appears to provide for.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy.

We have lusted after some of the things they did well, and we've done some things well, too, ... It's wonderful to see that coming together.

Older systems were secure because they were isolated. You can't layer on top of a system elements to make it secure you get too much of a mismatch between the components. This design approach is absolutely critical--thinking these things through from the beginning and not bringing security in at the end is very important. This has been a big shift for Microsoft.

The idea that you can find your friends, you can talk, you can see who's the best, you can have contests - it's redefining how gamers think of the machine, it's making it more social. As we spread this idea across all our products, that's where we'll take the leadership role.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

With the launch of Energy City, we have the opportunity to work together to create new tools and solutions that will enable oil and gas companies to achieve new levels of performance in every phase of their business.

Israel has enormous power in the high-tech world ... most people know that Israel, relative to its size, has made achievements in the field of technology,

If you look at our investment in the next version of Windows, security would jump out as the thing we've spent the most time on. Microsoft has a big responsibility here.

There will be a day, not far distant, when you will be able to conduct business, study, explore the world and its cultures, call up any great entertainment, make friends, attend neighborhood markets, and show pictures to distant relatives without leaving your desk or armchair. It will be more than an object you carry or an appliance you purchase. It will be your passport into a new, mediated way of life.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

We lusted after some of those things (Palm) did well, and we wanted to combine it with the things we did well. It's wonderful to see those things come together.

If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often.

Part of the goal here is to take all these transactions, these business understandings, and really get those into digital form,

There isn't the buzz and excitement about computer science that there should be. We're on the threshold of extraordinary advances in computing that will affect not only the sciences but also how we work and our culture. We need to get the brightest people working on those opportunities.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.

Often you have to rely on intuition.

The opportunity to do better software has never been stronger. We talk about this digital decade and people living a digital work style or a digital lifestyle when they go home -and that is becoming more and more commonly accepted. As you move things away from paperwork and onto the digital approach, everything is software value-added.

I never expected Microsoft to be so successful, ... We're not ashamed that we've taken the low-price, high-volume approach here, which is different than the competitors, who are trying to get a leg-up from the government.

I think you'll be amazed at the maturity we've gotten in the areas of hardware, battery life and software.

The government is going to file a lawsuit. Microsoft is innocent of any of these charges and we're certainly going to defend ourselves vigorously,

Two years from now, spam will be solved.

I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.

He's truly been a leader in protecting the safety of children online and convincing government, law enforcement and the private sector that we all need to work together to tackle this important problem.

As I understand it, providing Microsoft's technology to its competitors so they can build 'functional equivalents' of our products now, and match all our future innovations for 10 years, is in fact one of the central objectives,

That information essentially will be magically stored on the Internet itself, ... With any device, once you prove who you are with a pass card or a smart card, the things you care about, (such as) e-mail, bookmarks . . . will appear on that device, but in the way that matters to you.

Whenever we come out with a new version, and particularly with this version, you'll see an increase in revenue because you get that installed base coming in and you get people who have been reluctant thinking about whether they should buy the product saying, 'That is the hot new thing,'

I decided that I want to spend more time with our product groups and drive the breakthroughs and it's fantastic for me that Steve can step up to the business management of the company.

The broad and rich foundation of the Internet will unleash a 'services wave' of applications and experiences available instantly over the Internet to millions of users,

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

That's absolutely an important model because scale is important.

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

Oracle has an enterprise sales force in the model of IBM, but if I had been there as Oracle chief executive they would have been in Web servers and collaboration software. They only have databases,

Dynamic speaks to specific architectural capabilitiesthings that are unique to Microsoft that we do not see in our competitors' environments. These are roles based in a deep sense,

The people on (the Xbox) team can all kill me within about 60 seconds on Halo, so I try and avoid them.

There are some things that we are always thinking about. For example, when will speech recognition be good enough for everybody to use that And we have made a lot more progress this year on that. I think we will surprise people a bit on how well we will do on our speech recognition.

I have 100 billion dollars... You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years And that's if I don't make another dime. Tell you what-I'll buy your right arm for a million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm right here.

I used to think I wouldn't be all that interested in the baby until she was two or so and could talk, ... But I'm totally into it now. She's just started to say 'ba-ba' and have a personality.