Quotes by Bill Gates
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Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free.

The Internet? We are not interested in it.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

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 I fished out listings of their operating systems.

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

Now, if you're rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like Calcutta, they just simply won't be able to afford that kind of protection.

The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries -- Europe, Japan, New Zealand -- using about half of what we do, and then the world average being about a fifth of what we use, with China just now surpassing the world average.

If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for the next pandemic.

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do RandD about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.

I love nuclear. It does this radiation thing that's tricky. But they're good solutions. You know, it was interesting; recently, in Connecticut this natural gas plant blew up 11 guys. It just blew them up.

Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.

Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.

My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

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

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.

It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in -- if they could, they would do so.

It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change -- as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And -- there's more -- more times people think that's the case than it really is the case.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

The best teacher is very interactive.

Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

The mainstream is always under attack.

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

In low-income countries, the main problem you have is infectious diseases.

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM -- and they keep track of this -- is a little over four years.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

It's possible -- you can never know -- that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

The Green Revolution focused on the big three -- maize, rice and wheat -- and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.