Bill Gates Quotes

Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek. ~ China Mieville

The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have. ~ Bill Gates

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. ~ Bill Gates

You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch. ~ Bill Gates

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 ~ Bill Gates

Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement'
that might be spam. ~ Bill Gates

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that. ~ Bill Gates

I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science. ~ Bill Gates

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy. ~ Bill Gates

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. ~ Bill Gates

The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest. ~ Bill Gates

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything. ~ Bill Gates

I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years. ~ Bill Gates

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. ~ Bill Gates

Newspaper readership is still growing in India. ~ Bill Gates

Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you ~ Bill Gates

I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner. ~ Bill Gates

EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them. ~ Peter Thiel

We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them. ~ Bill Gates

There are two kinds of warriors:
those on the battlefield,
and those in the boardroom;
both are out to win.
But the age of King Alexander has gone,
and the age of Bill Gates has come. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software. ~ Bill Gates

So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts
you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important. ~ Bill Gates

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility. ~ Anthony Michael Hall

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of. ~ Bill Gates

I don't generally read a lot of fiction. ~ Bill Gates

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective. ~ Bill Gates

Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it's you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger. ~ Bill Gates

It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear. ~ Bill Gates

On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved far for years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy. ~ Bill Gates

The vision is 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 ~ Bill Gates

It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy. ~ Bill Gates

I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get. ~ Scott Adams

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it. ~ Bill Gates

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing. ~ Bill Gates

We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can. ~ Bill Gates

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way. ~ Bill Gates

We're no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really know what they were doing. ~ Bill Gates

Atari showed that young people could start big companies. Without that example it would have been harder for Jobs and Bill Gates, and people who came after them, to do what they did. ~ Nolan Bushnell

Make it just like a Mac. ~ Bill Gates

We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know. ~ Peter Jennings

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems. ~ Bill Gates

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. ~ Bill Gates

Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk. ~ Bill Gates

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up. ~ Bill Gates

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing. ~ Bill Gates

I didn't say this. ~ Bill Gates

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there. ~ Bill Gates

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome. ~ Bill Gates

I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government. ~ Bill Gates

Finally, assuming that many of those are fulfilled, which won't be easy in tight budget times, we're taking the supply side at the basic research level, because that's where government is absolutely fundamental. ~ Bill Gates

With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case. ~ Bill Gates

The concept of this so-called "TerraPower reactor" is that you, in the same reactor, you both burn and breed. So, instead of making plutonium and then extracting it, we take uranium - the 99.3 percent that you normally don't do anything with - we convert that, and we burn it. ~ Bill Gates

The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on. ~ Bill Gates

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. ~ Bill Gates

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen. ~ Bill Gates

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions. ~ Bill Gates

I'm cooler than you. WAAAY cooler. ~ Bill Gates

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code. ~ Bill Gates

Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there. ~ Bill Gates

I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: 'Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.' I want to thank Harvard for this honor. I'll be changing my job next year and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume! ~ Bill Gates

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive. ~ Bill Gates

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. ~ Bill Gates

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge. ~ Bill Gates

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. ~ Bill Gates

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear. ~ Bill Gates

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. ~ Bill Gates

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination. ~ Bill Gates

My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier. ~ Bill Gates

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now. ~ Bill Gates

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well. ~ Bill Gates

If we [the USA] don't innovate in education, it's literally going to mean less people get to go have that education at a time when more people are going to want it. We've got to put courses out on the Web, we've got to put interactive learning out on the Web. ~ Bill Gates

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete. ~ Bill Gates

People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works. ~ Bill Gates

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it. ~ Bill Gates

Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles. ~ Bill Gates

Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing. ~ Bill Gates

How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose. ~ Bill Gates

Bill Gates has 90 billion dollars ... If I had 90 billion dollars, I wouldn't have it for long because I would just dream of all the crazy stuff I could do with it. This guy, 90 billion dollars. He could buy every baseball team and make them all wear dresses and still have 88 billion dollars. ~ Louis C.K.

The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information. ~ Bill Gates

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. ~ Bill Gates

This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies. ~ Bill Gates

I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a little dangerous. And we've certainly seen that recently with Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, all saying AI is just taking off and it's going to take over the world very quickly. And the thing that they share is none of them work in this technological field. ~ Rodney Brooks

In china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you ~ Bill Gates

The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed. ~ Eric Ries

Michael Rafferty was a good
man. A solid man. He was never going to be Hugh Jackman handsome or Bill Gates rich or King of England powerful. But he was hers and he was Sean's and that was more than enough ~ J.R. Ward

Convert bad news to good news. ~ Bill Gates

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that. ~ Bill Gates

I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news. ~ Bill Gates

Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is. ~ Bill Gates

Jobs would have ever have asserted that Bill Gates was not serious about technology. He was a huge pioneer in that world, albeit doing something quite different in approach from what Steve did. He was dismissive of Gates' foundation work as something he did to make himself feel better. ~ Alex Gibney

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

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. ~ Bill Gates

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software. ~ Bill Gates

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. ~ Bill Gates

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld. ~ Bill Gates

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to. ~ Bill Gates

Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors. ~ Bill Gates

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. ~ Bill Gates

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble. ~ Bill Gates