Quotes By Bill Gates

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

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.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

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

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.

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

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

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.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

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

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

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.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Life is not fair; get used to it.

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.