Quotes By Bill Gates

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

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.

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

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

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.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

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.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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?