Bill Gates Quotations | Page 3

There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

If we don't do this right, we won't get the result we need.

Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.

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

Life is not fair; get used to it.

more like us than anyone else we have ever competed with.

No one should think that shareholder value would be preserved ... Microsoft would be greatly damaged by this kind of split.

No one should underestimate the PC and what a valuable tool it has become,

No one will ever need more then 640K Memory

No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. - said in the early 1970s

Now the growth in the last year in Europe was very rapid and so you can say the gap is closing a bit. But I think it's still an issue of great concern. A lot of kids graduate from college in Europe without having the in-depth exposure that most U.S. students receive. So there's work to be done.

now that the government has decided to sue.

Peter Jackson is one of Hollywood's most exciting innovators, and our partnership with him will greatly broaden the appeal of the Halo franchise. We're confident he'll create an epic that not only thrills existing Halo fans, but also introduces millions of moviegoers around the world to this amazing saga.

If we hope to maintain our economic and intellectual leadership in the U.S., we must renew this commitment. Unless there is reform, American competitiveness will suffer as other countries benefit from the international talent that U.S. employers cannot hire or retain.

If they want we will give them a sleeping bag, but there is something romantic about sleeping under the desk. They want to do it.

Let's drive not just breakthroughs in new products, but new ways to give more and more people access to these inventions and their benefits. This is a broad and important mission, and I believe we all have a part to play in it.

We need to make it easier for people to visualize information that comes from different directions,

We need to move beyond voice to voice and data, ... Microsoft can do this by bringing all the pieces together. And once we do, we are really going to surprise people.

Millions of children have died from malaria because they were not protected by an insecticide-treated bed net or did not receive effective treatment, ... If we expand malaria control programs and invest what's needed in (research and development), we can stop this tragedy.

Many of the holy grails of computing that have been worked on over the last 30 years will be solved within this 10-year period, with speech being in every device,

Software, by being comprehensive, can save costs by avoiding add-on pieces of software. We can save money in terms of speed of development or by being able to run on less expensive hardware.

Software empowerment can be used here as well.

Software is providing power, but software has got to provide simplicity. And that's why our investment levels are going up, investments in the toughest problems: security, privacy, speech recognition, video recognition, and all of those things will fold into this platform.

Software is redefining how people do things, ... We're nowhere near what we can do.

Software is the place where the action is . . . it is an area that will continue to generate jobs. This is the golden age of software.

Software is working to create an individualized video feed to the screen you're watching.

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.

Software will be the single most important force in digital entertainment over the next decade, ... XNA underscores Microsoft's commitment to the game industry and our desire to work with partners to take the industry to the next level.

Security is one of the few things that, if we don't do it right, could take this vision I have talked about and really hold it back,

Older systems were secure because they were isolated. You can't layer on top of a system elements to make it secure; you get too much of a mismatch between the components. This design approach is absolutely critical--thinking these things through from the beginning and not bringing security in at the end is very important. This has been a big shift for Microsoft.

When these products come out in late 2006...it will be the largest marketing event we've ever had,

I have a very strong optimism, not just about our activities here, but about all the new developments taking place in the country.

Kids are really incredible, in terms of how much they dive into this and just take it as a given. They'll be the ones who really bring the web lifestyle into the mainstream.

There are some architecture changes that need to be made,

There are still some companies out there based on the old thinking,

I'd be as bold as to say that over the next three years the majority of companies will decide that having streaming media for the information they share internally and externally will be of critical importance,

Four or five years from now, you will wonder when somebody called up to get technical support how they just used the phone to try and describe what was going on with their PC.

Fundamentally, world trade, if you block it, the big losers will be the poor people.

Getting minorities into those jobs we're not doing everything we should be to point out the opportunities,

Getting the video sources into the PC has been a limiting factor. We're making progress making the video content easily accessible on the PC.

If you are going from one of your own PCs to one of your other PCs, we will in the future make that possible. But we don't allow the distribution that is beyond the rights that you have.

If as many people paid for software as they do here, we'd have well more than 10 times the business we do today.

I don't think it's constructive to grow up having billions of dollars. . . . The idea that I will take a sizeable portion of my fortune and have them inherit that, I don't think that would be to society's benefit or to their benefit. I've spoken out about this before . . . my philosophy of giving back my wealth to society.

I expect over the next five years between us and others a heck of a job will get done. You'll be able to sit at your desk and do whatever it is you want to do with information or presenting data or interchanging data incredibly effectively. In other words, we will have changed the way people work.

I don't think you'd be interviewing me if we were any less nimble. You'd be writing our epitaph.

I have 100 billion dollars... You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime. Tell you what-I'll buy your right arm for a million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm right here.

Certainly, morale in the company is very high,

But as long as there is year-by-year progress, it holds a great opportunity for us in terms of scale, which helps us do more, and it's a great place where we have people working for us.

Building a Digital Nervous System does not require some huge new investment in hardware and software. In fact, most companies have the key building blocks today.

Building on our strengths as a software company, X-Box will offer game developers a powerful platform and game enthusiasts an incredible experience, ... We want X-Box to be the platform of choice for the best and most creative game developers in the world.

But the government made some non-negotiable demands that were very surprising to us,

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

Because we now have a research group, and we are out there working with lots of universities and are able to continue to hire great people, I'm very optimistic about our future. But, it is a future full of change and surprise.

Today is a great day for PC users and a great day for the PC industry,

We are experiencing the early days of a revolution...that will be long-lived and widespread.

Happy Valentine's Day. My other invitation was to go quail hunting with Dick Cheney.

Hardware is a small part of the cost.

had extremely radical views and weren't interested in seeing a settlement.

What will be most fun for me is to see how your generation comes in and takes software to a whole new level.

We're only halfway to what we think we can achieve,

I am impressed by what I have seen today.

I am here to share my story and answer questions about Microsoft and the PC industry, ... I hope that my testimony helps the court to resolve the issues in this case. That would be best for consumers and the industry, and that's why I am here.

If those are preserved, it'd be nice if a settlement could be reached,

If those children were in rich countries, we would have headlines, we'd take action. We wouldn't rest until every child was protected,

If we weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company.

If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about re-engineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity. About how quickly business itself will be transacted. About how information access will alter the lifestyle of consumers and their expectations of business . . . The successful companies of the next decade will be the ones that use digital tools to reinvent the way they work.

Imagine if they wouldn't let you put HTML in your application,

There is a new phase now, a business mania around the Internet. We need a new generation of software tools that makes it easy to build this phase,

Having great software that lets your people see digital information, lets them collaborate, lets you build a great Web site, that's going to be very, very important for all companies going forward, ... And Windows 2000 is the key platform where that starts.

There is no area where privacy is more important than health records.

The people on (the Xbox) team can all kill me within about 60 seconds on Halo, so I try and avoid them.

My value is still so much higher than I ever expected it to be by a factor of about 50. So the fact that at one point it was say, a factor of 60, well -- that wealth is all going back to society anyway.

Longhorn is a very ambitious piece of work,

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.

Some global health problems, like AIDS, have no easy solution -- but this isn't one of them. The world has an opportunity to stop millions of newborn deaths each year.

That doesn't mean I believe that reproductions are as good as the originals. There's nothing like seeing the real work.

Reliability is top of the list (of Windows 2000 features) ... People don't want to reboot their systems ever,

Password systems really won't cut it. (Firms) need to move to multi-factor authentication, and a lot of that will be smart cards.

Partners need to come in and be the ones who pull together the solution,

Part of India's great success in the IT sector comes from the fantastic investment that the government has made over decades in institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology. India only has six or seven million seats at its universities, and it will need 20 to 25 million, so I think this is a great opportunity to rethink the idea of a university.

Part of the goal here is to take all these transactions, these business understandings, and really get those into digital form,

Paul was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft and has played an important role in the success and direction of our company throughout the years,

I see if people are around, see what they put up on the walls. I want a little sense of what the feeling is, how lively, how much people personalize things. They put industry articles up on the walls, ones that are particularly rude to us or particul

I see a lot of change, a lot of opportunity. We're not just talking about taking the advances of the past and suffusing them out into 100 percent of companies. We're talking about new waves, and new ways of thinking about the Internet, and that's going to keep all of our jobs very, very exciting.

I think five or six years ago, if you'd said to people that software would be incredible in terms of making photos better, music better, TV better, phone calls very different, they would have been quite skeptical, they would have thought, 'How can software do that? Now, particularly in music and to some degree in TV, they've seen that it makes a huge difference. It allows them to pick the things that they're interested in, it allows them to see it when they want to, to share with friends what they've seen and what they like.

I will continue to value his friendship and counsel in the years ahead,

Jeez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type.

Nathan has been an invaluable contributor to Microsoft, the technology industry and to me personally over the past 13 years. Frankly, I would rather he continue his work at Microsoft, but I support his decision to take a much needed break and explore his passion for science.

It is employing every part of the (software) ecosystem.

It is certainly a dream come true in that we set a computer on every desk in every home and have the level of sales and profitability and employees we have today,

Melinda and I are thrilled to have someone with Dr. Yamada's breadth of experience leading the foundation's work on global health. He's organized the best talent around big challenges, knows what it takes to bring promising science from the lab to people in need, and understands how to engage new partners. We look forward to working with him to help close the gap in health between rich and poor countries.

Jobs in software are really fun jobs. These are not jobs about just closing the door and writing a lot of code.

removes the cloud of breakup from the company, reverses the tying claim and says clearly that we did not attempt to monopolize the browser market.

Palm always did great work, and so we lusted after some of those things that they do well,

Our vision connecting the world of PC's and TV's has long included advanced broadband capabilities to deliver video, data and interactivity to the home,

Our vision of what's important is exactly the same today, bringing together the best systems and the best software to empower people with rich information solutions.

I think if you go out five years from now, and look at portable computers, virtually all of those will have this tablet capability.