Quotes by Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Bill Gates

American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist

Lived from: 1955 -

Category: Business and entrepreneurs Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 28 october 1955

  • Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
  • If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
  • 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 top, you'll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really know what they were doing.
  • 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.
  • I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.
  • The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
  • When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
  • 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.
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  • At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
    Interview published in BBC (website): news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/club/your_reports/newsid_1697000/1697132.stm
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  • 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.
    Speech at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, February 24, 2004
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  • About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
    Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in Gates, Buffett a bit bearish CNET News (2 July 1998)
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  • Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
    "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
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  • Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business?
    In Search of the Real Bill Gates, Time (20 October 2005)
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  • As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
    As quoted in "In the Eye of the Storm: Reengineering Corporate Culture" (Leadership Press, 1995) by John R. Childress, p. 134
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  • Before Paul and I started the company, we had been involved in some large-scale software projects that were real disasters. They just kept pouring people in, and nobody knew how they were going to stabilize the project. We swore to ourselves that we would do better.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
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  • Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
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  • Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
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  • Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
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  • 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.
    Interview on "NOW" with Bill Moyers on May 9, 2003
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  • I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.
    OS/2 Programmers Guide, November 1987
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  • I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
    1989 speech on the history of the microcomputer industry. [1]
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  • 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.
    PC Magazine, 23 June 2008
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  • I wish I wasn't... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
    On being the worlds richest man, in an online advertising conference in Redmond, Washington, as quoted in The Guardian (5 May 2006)
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  • I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
    Bill Gates backs immigration reform on Mexico trip Reuters (21 March 2007)
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
    Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the Worlds Greatest Entrepreneur
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  • If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.
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What are the most famous quotes from Bill Gates?

The two most famous quotes from Bill Gates are:

  • "At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right."
  • "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."

When did Bill Gates live?

Bill Gates was born in 1955.