If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do! — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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
The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at… — 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 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
If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
[Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class… — 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
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
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
If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR! — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We need to start thinking about the Future of Food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture… — 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
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
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied. — Bill Gates Copy Share
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
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
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
Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great. — Bill Gates Copy Share
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
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
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. — Bill Gates Copy Share
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
At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to… — Bill Gates Copy Share
Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them. — Bill Gates Copy Share