Quotes By Bill Gates

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.

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

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

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.

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.

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

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

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

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.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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.

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.

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 spend a lot of time reading.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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.

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

People everywhere love Windows.

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.

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.