Quotees Archive

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.

- Bill Gates

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

- Bill Gates

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

- Bill Gates

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

- Bill Gates

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

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.

- Bill Gates

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

- Bill Gates

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

- Bill Gates

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

- Bill Gates

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

- Bill Gates

I’m a geek.

- Bill Gates

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don’t just think, yes my country is doing well, but you think about the world at large.

- Bill Gates

I don’t generally read a lot of fiction.

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

- Bill Gates

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

I don’t think there’s a… boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

- Bill Gates

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

- Bill Gates

I get more spam than anyone I know.

- Bill Gates

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.

- Bill Gates

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he’s got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

- Bill Gates

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

- Bill Gates

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

- Bill Gates

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

- Bill Gates

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

- Bill Gates

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

- Bill Gates

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

- Bill Gates

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

- Bill Gates

For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.

- Bill Gates

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

- Bill Gates

Google’s done a super good job on search. Apple’s done a great job on the iPod.

- Bill Gates

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

- Bill Gates

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.

- Bill Gates

Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

- Bill Gates

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book ‘The Most Powerful Idea in the World.

- Bill Gates

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

- Bill Gates

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

- Bill Gates

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.

- Bill Gates

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

- Bill Gates

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

- Bill Gates

I am results-oriented.

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

- Bill Gates

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

- Bill Gates