Bill Gates

Quotes

• “What J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller were to the Age of Robber Barons, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway...”
• “In May 2020, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York announced a partnership with the Gates Foundation to 'reinvent education....”
• “We would like every country to be self-sufficient so that both in terms of running a good primary health care system and...”
• “There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. ... I'm saying w...”
• “Just giving people devices has a really horrible track record. You really have to change the curriculum and the teacher....”
• “Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority...”
• “If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine. If you're int...”
• “The harsh mathematics of polio makes it clear: We cannot maintain a level of one thousand or two thousand cases a year. ...”
• “If you eventually get a society where you only have to work three days a week, that's probably OK. If you free up human ...”
• “The success of the Nigeria programme hinges on the active participation of everyone to make sure that all children are r...”
• “We should spend the next decade focusing on the technologies, [governmental] policies and market structures that will pu...”
• “The moral systems of religion, I think, are superimportant. We've raised our kids in a religious way; they've gone to th...”
• “There are two numbers you need to know about climate change. The first is 51 billion. The other is zero. Fifty-one billi...”
• “Unfortunately, many programs are so big that there is no one individual who really knows all the pieces, and so the amou...”
• “[W]ith transportation, the zero-carbon future is basically this: Use electricity to run all the vehicles we can, and get...”
• “I [have become] convinced of three things: 1. To avoid a climate disaster, we have to get to get to zero {net emissions ...”
• “The big concern is about the generations yet to come when [AI] gets way smarter than it is right now. And if a person wi...”
• “One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples br...”
• “Cited to "Challenges and Strategy" (16 May 1991) via Fred Warshofsky (1994), The Patent Wars. This is a misreading of Wa...”
• “First we've got population. Now, the world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if...”
• “It helps to set ambitious goals and commit to meeting them, the way countries around the world did with the 2015 Paris A...”
• “This leads to the paradox, that because the disease is only in the poor countries, there is not much investment. For exa...”
• “Gary Kildall was one of the original pioneers of the PC revolution. He was a very creative computer scientist who did ex...”
• “I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a ...”
• “One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-worl...”
• “Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they wil...”
• “Well, one thing that everybody may not be aware of is how fantastic the CDC has been historically. They're the best in t...”
• “The Economist (to cause the newspaper to speak with one voice, The Economist does not list author bylines for individual...”
• “One of the best things I read was an 1889 essay by Andrew Carnegie called The Gospel of Wealth. It makes the case that t...”
• “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patent...”
• “A similar thought was expressed by automobile executive Clarence Bleicher in 1947 (before Bill Gates was born): "if you ...”
• “Gary Kildall on the selection of Gates to give the keynote at the anniversary of the University of Washington computer s...”
• “Before Paul and I started the company, we had been involved in some large-scale software projects that were real disaste...”
• “To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really ne...”
• “Often attributed to Gates in 1981. Gates considered the IBM PC's 640 KB program memory a significant breakthrough o...”
• “You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. ...”
• “From "Gates to double investment in renewable energy projects: Microsoft co-founder takes interest in new areas of resea...”
• “The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have wr...”
• “The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technologic...”
• “We don't have the user centricity. Until we understand context, which is way beyond presence - presence is the most triv...”
• “Microsoft's early mobile strategy was clearly a mistake. There's a lot of things like cellphones where we didn't get out...”
• “Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When ...”
• “[I]t's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, "Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high e...”
• “Speaking to the Financial Times about Elon Musk and the cuts made to USAID by the Department of Government Efficiency. B...”
• “Seth Borenstein, Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press. "Bill Gates sees 'a lot of climate exaggeration' out there: 'T...”
• “The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To h...”
• “We're no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the...”
• “Quoted in various publications, without any further sourcing. The quote is dubious in view of the Gates Foundation's pub...”
• “Warren Buffett, in lecture at Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (1994); Warren...”
• “40,000 people came out of China, 'cause we didn't ban the rest of them citizens from coming back, so we created this rus...”