I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Even for the diseases we don't focus on, cancer, heart disease, you're going to be way better off being sick 10 years… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very… — 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
I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
As we have taken diarrhea and pneumonia down, even malaria down quite a bit, the portion of the days that are very… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I was announcing to the public, in 2006, that I'd be leaving Microsoft in a couple of years and focusing full-time on… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that… — 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
So on the demand side [for energy], there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there. — 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
![“We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect to drive the number of [polio] cases back down to zero because that is likely to be the second disease after smallpox that we completely eradicate.” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eed/bill-gates-137_afghanistan_we-have-two-other-countries-pakistan-and_978741.jpg)
![“People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA [personal digital assistant] as we are.” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f8/bill-gates-137_assistants_people-can-criticize-microsoft-for-suppo_1856575.jpg)
![“I was announcing to the public, in 2006, that I'd be leaving Microsoft in a couple of years and focusing full-time on the foundation. That was the time at which we went back to New York and Warren [Buffett] announced these gifts to a number of foundations, with a very high percentage of it going…” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6c/bill-gates-137_announcing_i-was-announcing-to-the-public-in-2006-t_2007640.jpg)
![“So on the demand side [for energy], there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion a year of tax credits, raising the price of electricity through things like renewable portfolio standards, so the total amount of money that's gone into sending a price signal to…” quote by Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf4/bill-gates-137_amount_so-on-the-demand-side-for-energy-there-h_2440121.jpg)
