Bill Gates Quotes (412 Quotes)


    I expect over the next five years between us and others a heck of a job will get done. You'll be able to sit at your desk and do whatever it is you want to do with information or presenting data or interchanging data incredibly effectively. In other words, we will have changed the way people work.

    the greatest unpredicted miracle in history.

    Hardware is a small part of the cost.

    As we step up malaria research, it's also critically important to save lives today with existing tools. Bed nets cost just a few dollars each, but only a small fraction of African children sleep under one.

    Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.


    We are entering a digital decade where smart, connected devices and advanced home-entertainment solutions will enable people to utilize technology in new ways and maximize its full potential.

    Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

    I believe OS2 . . . to be the most important OS . . . of all time.

    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.

    Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

    One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products.

    Fundamentally, world trade, if you block it, the big losers will be the poor people.

    You want literally everything in the world to be connected

    There is a new phase now, a business mania around the Internet. We need a new generation of software tools that makes it easy to build this phase,

    To relieve the pressures of programming, Evans took up mountain climbing. One day Gates got a call from the headmaster Evans had been killed in a fall. I had never thought of people dying, ... At the service, I was supposed to speak, but I couldn't get up. For two weeks I couldn't do anything at all.

    Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

    These are jobs that pay great, ... These are fun jobs, and so you'd think right now we'd be having more people applying in them than ever. .But in fact somehow we haven't got the word out. We haven't made it clear the steps to get the right skills to get these jobs.

    Billy gates why do you make this possible Stop making money and fix your software

    This is what competition is all about, ... Sure, we want new versions of Windows to be popular.

    The whole idea of the H1-B thing is don't let too many smart people come into the country. Basically, it doesn't make sense. You can't imagine how tough it is to plan as a company where we say, 'Let's have this engineering group and staff it.' You get a few and then you go through these periods where nobody can come in.

    If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

    Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.

    We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy and the government.

    You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.

    committed to continue to hire great people, listen to customers, invest in future research and development, and create the next great generation of software.

    Consumers are getting more connected. Software is at the heart of it.

    Citizens are interested in more information if they can easily reach out and get it.

    The breadth of experience that people have as they browse the Web is going to get larger and larger.

    For far too long, malaria has been a forgotten epidemic, ... a disgrace that the world has allowed malaria deaths to double in the last 20 years.

    Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

    We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act

    The X-Box is the first game product designed for the Internet, ... You can download music. You can download new games. ... It is new, but we've got to make sure that we get the very best game experience.

    There is no area where privacy is more important than health records.

    Anyone who thinks this isn't a hypercompetitive business is crazy,

    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.

    Reliability is top of the list (of Windows 2000 features) ... People don't want to reboot their systems ever,

    The criticism is (that) we do new software too fast with too many new features, and that (that) makes it hard for people to compete against us,

    Today is a great day for PC users and a great day for the PC industry,

    The report confirms what has been clear, and that is that the world isn't investing nearly enough in malaria RD,

    If we hope to maintain our economic and intellectual leadership in the U.S., we must renew this commitment. Unless there is reform, American competitiveness will suffer as other countries benefit from the international talent that U.S. employers cannot hire or retain.

    The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past.

    This is a very tough disease. It is going to take all of us -- private sector, the pharmaceutical companies, philanthropy and governments in countries that have the disease -- to participate as well.

    The best way to prepare to be a programmer is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.

    With our foundation, with others ... we're getting the brightest scientists to come and work on these problems,

    With Windows, people have a vast choice of tools, applications and devices to start anything they like.

    If government is pulling back on this stuff, then the AIDS epidemic absolutely will not be stopped and the whole view of the rich world and how they've behaved to the world at large I think will be sort of irredeemable,

    As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

    The greatest surprise in poverty reduction ... is China.

    avoid the kinds of security problems people have had.

    Those vendors have to be willing to give up a substantial part of their revenue stream to generate money for partners, he said. They have quota-driven services PL. It's a huge part of their business.


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