Ict Bill Gates Quotes

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. ~ Bill Gates

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole. ~ 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

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so. ~ Bill Gates

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. ~ Bill Gates

See the clock only when you have No work ... Don't see the clock when you are working ... Clock is a lock for success ~ Bill Gates

It's paradoxical that, when you have better health, families choose to have less children, because they've been having enough children so that they can be sure that a few of them will survive and take care of them. So as health improves, then all the other problems are dramatically easier to tackle. ~ Bill Gates

The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money. ~ Bill Gates

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. ~ Bill Gates

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things. ~ Bill Gates

Change the boundaries of business. ~ Bill Gates

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

If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR! ~ Bill Gates

Your customers get better when you do. ~ Bill Gates

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently? ~ Bill Gates

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. ~ Bill Gates

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man. ~ Bill Gates

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

The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper. ~ Bill Gates

Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference. ~ Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. ~ Bill Gates

No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer ~ Bill Gates

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil. ~ Bill Gates

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on. ~ Bill Gates

If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business. ~ Bill Gates

Most poor people live in the poorest countries. ~ Bill Gates

It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down. ~ Bill Gates

Kids in college often look for mentors and role models to model their careers after, and women don't have the equivalent of a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. I think it's a self-perpetuating loop. ~ Ruchi Sanghvi

You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour. ~ Bill Gates

My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive. ~ Bill Gates

One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly. ~ Bill Gates

If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases. ~ Bill Gates

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. ~ Bill Gates

We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies." ~ Bill Gates