Bill Gates Quotes And Sayings

I Get More Spam Than Anyone I Know.

I Have A Company That Is Not Microsoft, Called Corbis. Corbis Is The Operation That Merged With Bettman Archives. It Has Nothing To Do With Microsoft. It Was Intentionally Done Outside Of Microsoft Because Microsoft Isn't Interested.

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.

The Outside Perception And Inside Perception Of Microsoft Are So Different. The View Of Microsoft Inside Microsoft Is Always Kind Of An Underdog Thing.

There Are Websites That Any Government Wants To Block. The Truth About The Internet Is That It's Extremely Hard To Block Anything - Extremely Hard. You'll Never Get Perfect Blocking.

There's No Such Thing As Going To A Soapbox And Saying, 'The Government's Corrupt,' And Not Having The Intelligence Service See Your Face. In The Digital World, That Can Be Done.

I Think Any Statement About Stock Prices Is Always Suspect Unless It's Made By Warren Buffett.

The Internet Is The Easiest Thing To Get Into. To Be An Internet Retailer, You Just Get That Url.

Treatment Without Prevention Is Simply Unsustainable.

At Microsoft There Are Lots Of Brilliant Ideas But The Image Is That They All Come From The Top - I'm Afraid That's Not Quite Right.

We All Need People Who Will Give Us Feedback. That's How We Improve.

Information Technology And Business Are Becoming Inextricably Interwoven. I Don't Think Anybody Can Talk Meaningfully About One Without The Talking About The Other.

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.

If I'd Had Some Set Idea Of A Finish Line, Don't You Think I Would Have Crossed It Years Ago?

As We Look Ahead Into The Next Century, Leaders Will Be Those Who Empower Others.

I'm A Great Believer That Any Tool That Enhances Communication Has Profound Effects In Terms Of How People Can Learn From Each Other, And How They Can Achieve The Kind Of Freedoms That They're Interested In.

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 That I Had A Chance To Read A Lot.

We Always Overestimate The Change That Will Occur In The Next Two Years And Underestimate The Change That Will Occur In The Next Ten. Don't Let Yourself Be Lulled Into Inaction.

I Was Lucky To Be Involved And Get To Contribute To Something That Was Important, Which Is Empowering People With Software.

Governments Will Always Play A Huge Part In Solving Big Problems. They Set Public Policy And Are Uniquely Able To Provide The Resources To Make Sure Solutions Reach Everyone Who Needs Them. They Also Fund Basic Research, Which Is A Crucial Component Of The Innovation That Improves Life For Everyone.

Well The Protester I Think Is A Very Powerful Thing. It's Basically A Mechanism Of Democracy That, Along With Capitalism, Scientific Innovation, Those Things Have Built The Modern World. And It's Wonderful That The New Tools Have Empowered That Protestor So That State Secrets, Bad Developments Are Not Hidden Anymore.

I Think It's Fair To Say That Personal Computers Have Become The Most Empowering Tool We've Ever Created. They're Tools Of Communication, They're Tools Of Creativity, And They Can Be Shaped By Their User.

Legacy Is A Stupid Thing! I Don't Want A Legacy.

We Are In The Throes Of A Transition Where Every Publication Has To Think Of Their Digital Strategy.

In Business, The Idea Of Measuring What You Are Doing, Picking The Measurements That Count Like Customer Satisfaction And Performance... You Thrive On That.

The Next Time Someone Tells You We Can Trim The Budget By Cutting Aid, I Hope You Will Ask Whether It Will Come At The Cost Of More People Dying.

We Make The Future Sustainable When We Invest In The Poor, Not When We Insist On Their Suffering.

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.

The Intersection Of Law, Politics, And Technology Is Going To Force A Lot Of Good Thinking.

If African Farmers Can Use Improved Seeds And Better Practices To Grow More Crops And Get Them To Market, Then Millions Of Families Can Earn Themselves A Better Living And A Better Life.

The U.s. Immigration Laws Are Bad - Really, Really Bad. I'd Say Treatment Of Immigrants Is One Of The Greatest Injustices Done In Our Government's Name.

Paper Is No Longer A Big Part Of My Day. I Get 90% Of My News Online, And When I Go To A Meeting And Want To Jot Things Down, I Bring My Tablet Pc. It's Fully Synchronized With My Office Machine, So I Have All The Files I Need. It Also Has A Note-taking Piece Of Software Called Onenote, So All My Notes Are In Digital Form.

Your Most Unhappy Customers Are Your Greatest Source Of Learning.

Living On $6 A Day Means You Have A Refrigerator, A Tv, A Cell Phone, Your Children Can Go To School. That's Not Possible On $1 A Day.

If Your Culture Doesn't Like Geeks, You Are In Real Trouble.

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.

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.

You Have To Have A Certain Realism That Government Is A Pretty Blunt Instrument, And Without The Constant Attention Of Highly Qualified People With The Right Metrics, It Will Fall Into Not Doing Things Very Well.

For Africa To Move Forward, You've Really Got To Get Rid Of Malaria.

Now, We Put Out A Lot Of Carbon Dioxide Every Year, Over 26 Billion Tons. For Each American, It's About 20 Tons. For People In Poor Countries, It's Less Than One Ton. It's An Average Of About Five Tons For Everyone On The Planet. And, Somehow, We Have To Make Changes That Will Bring That Down To Zero.

In This Business, By The Time You Realize You're In Trouble, It's Too Late To Save Yourself. Unless You're Running Scared All The Time, You're Gone.

Being Flooded With Information Doesn't Mean We Have The Right Information Or That We're In Touch With The Right People.

Microsoft Is Not About Greed. It's About Innovation And Fairness.

The Internet Is Becoming The Town Square For The Global Village Of Tomorrow.

I Remember Thinking Quite Logically That I Didn't Want To Spoil My Children With Wealth And So That I Would Create A Foundation, But Not Knowing Exactly What It Would Focus On.

The 'Billionaire' Song Is What My Kids Tease Me With. They Sing It To Me. It's Funny.

The Tool That's Most Associated With The Recent Progress Against Malaria Is The Long-lasting Bed Net. Bed Nets Are A Fantastic Innovation. But We Can Do Even Better. We Can Invent New Ways To Control The Mosquitoes That Carry The Malaria Parasite.

Whether I'm At The Office, At Home, Or On The Road, I Always Have A Stack Of Books I'm Looking Forward To Reading.

Just In Terms Of Allocation Of Time Resources, Religion Is Not Very Efficient. There's A Lot More I Could Be Doing On A Sunday Morning.

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.