Quotes by Bill Gates
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Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

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

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

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

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

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

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules -- not just for governments but for private companies.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

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.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity -- the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.

Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

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.

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

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

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

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

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.

This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

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

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

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

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

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

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

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