Quotes By Bill Gates

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.

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

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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.

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

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

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 have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

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

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

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

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

People everywhere love Windows.

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.

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.

It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

Life is not fair; get used to it.

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

I'm a geek.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

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.