A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door… — 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
Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news.… — 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
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
...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Bioterrorism is like earthquakes, you should think in order of magnitudes. If you can kill 10 people that's a one, 100 people… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I say "miracle" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We need to cooperate globally on epidemic preparedness and prevention in the same way we are cooperating globally to stop people from… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think Ebola is a great example of where the world really needs to come together. The three countries where this outbreak… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. I was watching my daughter ride horses… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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![“[Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend…” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af5/bill-gates-137_care_melinda-gates-is-a-lot-of-fun-to-work-wi_1189669.jpg)
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