Famous Quotes By Bill Gates

 

1. 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.
2. Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
3. Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
4. Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
5. DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
6. Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. I spend a lot of time reading.
10. 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.
11. If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
12. If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
13. If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
14. If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
15. 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.
16. I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
17. In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
18. In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
19. Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
20. 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.
21. It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
22. It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.
23. Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
24. Life is not fair get used to it.
25. 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.
26. Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.
27. People everywhere love Windows.
28. Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
29. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
30. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
31. Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
32. The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
36. 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.
37. We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
38. 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.
39. Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
40. We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
41. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.