If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I have $100 billion… You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The media covers what's new - and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it's… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you really could take the CO2, when you burn hydrocarbons - coal, for example - if you could really capture the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all - including the poorest. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I don't think I would have spent time learning about the immune system if understanding vaccines weren't something I considered very important. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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