Bill Gates Quotes

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same ...

The future of advertising is the Internet.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special att...

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so i...

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educatio...

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life ...

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that t...

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars t...

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I ...

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate an...

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teac...

When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your ...

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that me...

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of ...

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, s...

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politic...

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chan...

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can ...

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bo...

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have travel...

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology ...

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as t...

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help m...

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable ...

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever gett...

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had ...

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient opera...

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a...

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. Whe...

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government wor...

Life is not fair get used to used to it

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you...

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help societ...

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills tha...

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head ...

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it n...

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to r...

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degre...

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a li...

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a real...

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having t...

DON'T COMPARE YOURSELF WITH ANYONE IN THIS WORLD..........IF U DO SO U R INSULTING YOURSELF

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whet...

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the te...

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p...

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more...

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

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

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting scienc...

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. B...

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happe...

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develo...

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust...

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

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

Life is not fair, get used to it

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad....

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know abou...

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying ...

By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited......

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how ...

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of wher...

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

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

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right,...

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the diffe...

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes someth...

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There`s a lot more I ...

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to d...

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nucle...

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in ...

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for ten...

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' An...

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in com...

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biol...

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so...

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I do...

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

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...