Bill Gates Quotes (412 Quotes)

What will be most fun for me is to see how your generation comes in and takes software to a whole new level.

In most companies, you don't get too much mail where people are saying, 'Hey, we lost this account.' But that's what you really need to know about, because it might change what you're doing. You need to know about competitive activity. You need to kn

We're at a very key transition point, ... There are going to be lots of devices, but a new model that makes them work together. It is going to require an architecture approach that is different than what we have today.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

Microsoft's platforms and services, combined with BT's mobile networks, will enable users to access rich, interactive information anytime, anywhere and on any device.

A big focus for us has been reliability. People don't want their video interrupted,

Having great software that lets your people see digital information, lets them collaborate, lets you build a great Web site, that's going to be very, very important for all companies going forward, ... And Windows 2000 is the key platform where that starts.

The phone is very different. The idea of a meeting is very different.

Health care applications, on the other hand, are quite local, ... Most software is actually local and fairly specialized.

If as many people paid for software as they do here, we'd have well more than 10 times the business we do today.