Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i...
BILL GATES The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft in...
BILL GATES According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first w...
BILL GATES My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a ...
BILL GATES Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated ...
BILL GATES The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
BILL GATES The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
BILL GATES People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision...
BILL GATES In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua...
BILL GATES My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
BILL GATES In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
BILL GATES I think there will be PCs at every price point.
BILL GATES I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
BILL GATES The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natu...
BILL GATES The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
BILL GATES Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. ...
BILL GATES At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I&...
BILL GATES I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a littl...
BILL GATES Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on...
BILL GATES I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t...
BILL GATES To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so...
BILL GATES Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
BILL GATES People everywhere love Windows.
BILL GATES I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
BILL GATES The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
BILL GATES If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago...
BILL GATES Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
BILL GATES Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
BILL GATES China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
BILL GATES The best teacher is very interactive.
BILL GATES Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
BILL GATES Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it k...
BILL GATES I'm a geek.
BILL GATES I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
BILL GATES If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, a...
BILL GATES As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
BILL GATES 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...
BILL GATES Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
BILL GATES If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
BILL GATES Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
BILL GATES We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
BILL GATES In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his ho...
BILL GATES The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one o...
BILL GATES This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more...
BILL GATES The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p...
BILL GATES Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
BILL GATES Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
BILL GATES For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made ...
BILL GATES In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust...
BILL GATES Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
BILL GATES People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People f...
BILL GATES By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
BILL GATES Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
BILL GATES Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
BILL GATES I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to...
BILL GATES Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
BILL GATES There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
BILL GATES I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is...
BILL GATES There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Was...
BILL GATES The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for ten...
BILL GATES Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos...
BILL GATES You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the con...
BILL GATES I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So...
BILL GATES There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's...
BILL GATES Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying ...
BILL GATES There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fix...
BILL GATES We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some ...
BILL GATES The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't g...
BILL GATES I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that mak...
BILL GATES Often you have to rely on intuition.
BILL GATES Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I ...
BILL GATES The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on...
BILL GATES The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct cont...
BILL GATES allowed us to get to where we are today.
BILL GATES These are jobs that pay great, ... These are fun jobs, and so you'd think right now we'd be having m...
BILL GATES We will have the largest marketing activity that we've ever had.
BILL GATES I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in ...
BILL GATES When these products come out in late 2006...it will be the largest marketing event we've ever had,
BILL GATES Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added cu...
BILL GATES Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get ...
BILL GATES This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that the personal computer h...
BILL GATES Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, ...
BILL GATES At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'...
BILL GATES Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can ...
BILL GATES There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interes...
BILL GATES If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
BILL GATES 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
BILL GATES Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
BILL GATES If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars t...
BILL GATES Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
BILL GATES Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot mor...
BILL GATES My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the diffe...
BILL GATES When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had ...
BILL GATES Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to b...
BILL GATES Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built...
BILL GATES Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms ...
BILL GATES If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
BILL GATES Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.
BILL GATES Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
BILL GATES It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
BILL GATES Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable ...
BILL GATES The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whet...
BILL GATES By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited......
BILL GATES Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
BILL GATES The future of advertising is the Internet.
BILL GATES Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
BILL GATES Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills tha...
BILL GATES I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ...
BILL GATES If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars t...
BILL GATES Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the te...
BILL GATES The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
BILL GATES I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of ...
BILL GATES I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
BILL GATES I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for...
BILL GATES Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge...
BILL GATES We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change...
BILL GATES Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate...
BILL GATES The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders a...
BILL GATES Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there ...
BILL GATES When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in....
BILL GATES If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussio...
BILL GATES We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, m...
BILL GATES Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world...if you do so, you are insulting yourself.
BILL GATES The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly...
BILL GATES K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
BILL GATES The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient opera...
BILL GATES Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as t...
BILL GATES I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the bu...
BILL GATES The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in com...
BILL GATES I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bett...
BILL GATES In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I...
BILL GATES If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensiv...
BILL GATES One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, ...
BILL GATES Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
BILL GATES Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis playe...
BILL GATES I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the b...
BILL GATES The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, ...
BILL GATES Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is...
BILL GATES There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nu...
BILL GATES In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government wor...
BILL GATES Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
BILL GATES The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very lo...
BILL GATES The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
BILL GATES Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody ...
BILL GATES Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uni...
BILL GATES Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has not...
BILL GATES You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know ...
BILL GATES Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good wa...
BILL GATES Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus s...
BILL GATES I agree with people like BILL GATES If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to ma...
BILL GATES Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertiliz...
BILL GATES On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one sc...
BILL GATES The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting...
BILL GATES With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type...
BILL GATES The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. Y...
BILL GATES Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient ...
BILL GATES Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy tha...
BILL GATES Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less d...
BILL GATES There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, eve...
BILL GATES The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uraniu...
BILL GATES The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.
BILL GATES Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
BILL GATES If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan...
BILL GATES The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
BILL GATES Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it'...
BILL GATES I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's...
BILL GATES To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes somethi...
BILL GATES If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
BILL GATES The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numb...
BILL GATES Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by ...
BILL GATES I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet.
BILL GATES If I was down to my last dollar, I would spend it on PR
BILL GATES Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
BILL GATES The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn...
BILL GATES SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpen...
BILL GATES If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of foo...
BILL GATES Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has bee...
BILL GATES We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
BILL GATES The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.
BILL GATES We want to further eliminate friction among heterogeneous architectures and applications without com...
BILL GATES As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... befor...
BILL GATES You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything th...
BILL GATES People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which wil...
BILL GATES Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence ...
BILL GATES Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently di...
BILL GATES The incredible momentum around all these new products and services shows that the digital lifestyle ...
BILL GATES Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in t...
BILL GATES The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity ...
BILL GATES Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year d...
BILL GATES If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do...
BILL GATES People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feare...
BILL GATES Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area...
BILL GATES Most of the other things they have done (are) nowhere near as good as what we or others have done.
BILL GATES I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that ma...
BILL GATES The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing ...
BILL GATES If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good ...
BILL GATES Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to d...
BILL GATES TV historically has been a broadcast medium in which everybody's picking from a finite number of cha...
BILL GATES