Bill Gates Quotes

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Bill Gates

Idea, Line, Finish

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates

Life, Property, Banana

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.
Bill Gates

Design, Simple, Down

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

Tomorrow, Internet, Becoming

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.
Bill Gates

American, Few, Teach

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

Life, Play, Big

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

Life, Yourself, Find

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.
Bill Gates

Change, Time, Business

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Bill Gates

Until, Kid, City

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Bill Gates

Free, Whether, Fantastic

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
Bill Gates

Down, Put, Poor

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
Bill Gates

Experience, Ugly, Users

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
Bill Gates

Computers, Problems, Creative

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
Bill Gates

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.
Bill Gates

Great, Sorry, Political

I spend a lot of time reading.
Bill Gates

Time, Reading, Spend

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
Bill Gates

Anyone, Move, Wants

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

Learn, Research, Facts

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Bill Gates

Money, Put, Behavior

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.
Bill Gates

Society, Give, Others

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
Bill Gates

Memory, Excellent

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

Off, Less, Took

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.
Bill Gates

Funny, Help, Rich

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
Bill Gates

Capitalism, Likes, Microsoft

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
Bill Gates

Dream, Close, Basic

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Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: October 28, 1955

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