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

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  • The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
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  • The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
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  • There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
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  • There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
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  • Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
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  • 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.
    Interview with David Rensin for Playboy Magazine, 1994
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  • We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.
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  • We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
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  • What if Columbus had been told, Chris, baby, don't go now. Wait until we've solved our number-one priorities - war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred....
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  • What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
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  • 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.
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  • Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
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  • You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that. quoted in
    Interview: "Bill Gates Joins the iPads Army of Critics. Steve Jobs Couldnt Care Less.", Feb 11, 2010, CBS News
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  • You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. You've got to want to be in this incredible feedback loop where you get the world-class people to tell you what you're doing wrong...
    Interview from Programmers at Work
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  • Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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