Bill Gates Quotes

101 Sourced Quotes

The success of the Nigeria programme hinges on the active participation of everyone to make sure that all children are reached by National Immunization Days (NIDs), Immunization Plus Days (IPDs) and the routine immunization programme, if the country capitalizes on the commitments I've heard in the past two days, Nigeria can lead the way to a polio-free Africa.

Bill Gates
If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

Bill Gates
On being the world's richest man:
I wish I wasn't … There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

Bill Gates
Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.

Bill Gates
The world has had a tendency to focus a disproportionate amount of attention on me.
On him moving to concentrate on his charity work

Bill Gates
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

Bill Gates
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 irritating.

Bill Gates
The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.

Bill Gates
Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.

Bill Gates
On Blu-ray:
Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be.

Bill Gates
The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.

Bill Gates
Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business?

Bill Gates
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

Bill Gates
The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.

Bill Gates
The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

Bill Gates
We don't have option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.

Bill Gates
This leads to the paradox, that because the disease is only in the poor countries, there is not much investment. For example, there is more money put into baldness drugs, than are put into malaria. Now, baldness, it is a terrible thing [audience laughter] and rich men are afflicted, so that is why that priority is set.

Bill Gates
If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.

Bill Gates
Before Paul and I started the company, we had been involved in some large-scale software projects that were real disasters. They just kept pouring people in, and nobody knew how they were going to stabilize the project. We swore to ourselves that we would do better.

Bill Gates
We would like every country to be self-sufficient so that both in terms of running a good primary health care system and funding a good primary health care system, it's all OK, and they just participate in regional bodies that have standby capacity to deal with these things. Africa, of all the places in the world, is the furthest behind on being able to do that. And through aid, health and health systems in Africa have improved very, very dramatically.

Bill Gates
Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

Bill Gates
Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

Bill Gates
I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64 K to 640 K felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.

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

Bill Gates
We are in the end game, I'm optimistic that we will be successful. I'm personally very committed

Bill Gates