2. Bill Gates
  3. 05/11/2017


Leave a Reply


Quotes by Bill Gates

Quotes by Bill Gates

  2. A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
  4. A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.
  5. AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.
  7. Africa is on the rise.
  10. Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.
  13. Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
  17. Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.
  18. Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.
  19. 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.
  22. By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
  24. Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.
  28. Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.
  29. China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
  30. 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.
  32. China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
  34. Common Core is a big win for education.
  35. Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
  37. Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.
  38. Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
  40. DOS is ugly and interferes with users’ experience.
  41. Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
  42. Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
  43. Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
  44. Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
  45. Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.
  46. Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
  48. Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
  53. Eventually, all companies are replaced.
  55. Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
  56. Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
  57. Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.
  58. For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.
  61. Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
  62. Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.
  63. Google’s done a super good job on search; Apple’s done a great job on the IPod.
  68. Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.
  72. I am results-oriented.
  76. I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
  77. I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.
  78. I do the dishes every night – other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.
  79. I don’t generally read a lot of fiction.
  80. I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.
  81. I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.
  82. I don’t think culture is something you can describe.
  83. I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
  84. I don’t think there’s a… boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.
  85. I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.
  86. I get more spam than anyone I know.
  88. I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.
  89. I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he’s got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.
  90. I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
  91. I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
  93. I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.
  95. I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.
  97. I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
  100. I spend a lot of time reading.
  101. I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.
  104. I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.
  105. I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.
  107. I think there will be PCs at every price point.
  108. I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.
  110. I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.
  111. I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
  112. I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.
  114. I’m a geek.
  116. I’m an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.
  117. I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.
  118. I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.
  119. I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.
  120. I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
  121. I’m not a macroeconomics person.
  122. 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.
  126. 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.
  127. If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.
  129. If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.
  133. If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.
  134. If you count E-mail, I’m on the Internet all day, every day.
  136. 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.
  138. 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.
  141. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.
  144. In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.
  145. 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.
  146. In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.
  148. In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.
  151. In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It’s very expensive.
  152. In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
  154. In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.
  161. India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.
  162. India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.
  164. Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.
  165. Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
  166. Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
  167. Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
  169. Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
  171. It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.
  173. 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.
  174. It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
  175. It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.
  179. K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
  180. Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
  181. Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.
  182. 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 exciting.
  183. Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
  186. Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.
  187. Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It’s not a popular position.
  188. Measles will always show you if someone isn’t doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.
  190. Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.
  191. Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.
  192. Money has always been in politics. And I’m not sure you’d want money to be completely out of politics.
  193. Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
  194. Most poor people live in the poorest countries.
  195. Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
  196. My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.
  197. My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.
  200. My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.
  201. Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
  202. Newspaper readership is still growing in India.
  204. Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.
  205. No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
  206. Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
  207. Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
  210. Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
  217. Our teachers deserve better feedback.
  218. Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.
  224. People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.
  226. People everywhere love Windows.
  227. People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
  229. Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
  231. Philanthropy should be voluntary.
  232. Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.
  234. Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
  236. Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
  238. Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.
  241. 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.
  242. Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.
  244. Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
  247. Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
  249. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
  250. Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.
  252. Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
  253. The ‘Billionaire’ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.
  254. The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.
  257. The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.
  259. The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
  260. The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.
  262. The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
  263. The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.
  264. The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.
  267. The best teacher is very interactive.
  268. The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
  273. The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.
  274. The future of advertising is the Internet.
  275. The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
  278. The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
  279. The kids are a big part of my schedule.
  281. The mainstream is always under attack.
  283. The microprocessor is a miracle.
  284. The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.
  285. The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
  286. The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
  287. The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
  288. 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.
  290. The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.
  291. The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events – Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima – so it’s more visible.
  292. The only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
  294. The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.
  295. The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
  296. The part of uranium that’s fissile – when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two – is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
  297. 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.
  298. The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.
  299. The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
  300. 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.
  301. The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
  303. The tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.
  309. The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
  312. 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.
  313. There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
  314. There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
  317. There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.
  318. There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
  319. There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
  323. There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
  324. There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‘The government’s corrupt,’ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
  326. This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.
  327. This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
  329. 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.
  330. Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
  334. Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
  335. Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
  336. Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
  339. We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
  340. 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.
  342. We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
  343. We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
  346. We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
  347. We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
  349. Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.
  350. 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.
  351. Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.
  352. Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
  353. Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
  358. When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
  359. When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
  361. When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
  364. Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.
  366. Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
  367. Who decides what’s in Windows? The customers who buy it.
  368. Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.
  369. 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.
  373. You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
  378. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.