Bill Gates Quotes

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

~ Bill Gates

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

~ Bill Gates

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

~ Bill Gates

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

~ Bill Gates

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

~ Bill Gates

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

~ Bill Gates

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

~ Bill Gates

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

~ Bill Gates

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

~ Bill Gates

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.

~ Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

~ Bill Gates

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

~ 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

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

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

~ Bill Gates

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

~ Bill Gates

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

~ Bill Gates

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

~ Bill Gates

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

~ Bill Gates

Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.

~ Bill Gates

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

~ Bill Gates

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

~ 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

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

~ Bill Gates

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

~ Bill Gates

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

~ Bill Gates

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

~ Bill Gates

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

~ Bill Gates

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

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

~ Bill Gates

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

~ Bill Gates

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

~ Bill Gates

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

~ Bill Gates

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

~ Bill Gates

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

~ Bill Gates

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.

~ Bill Gates

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

~ Bill Gates

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

~ Bill Gates

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

~ Bill Gates

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

~ Bill Gates