Quotes By Bill Gates

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.

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.

I'm a geek.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

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.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

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

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

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

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.