Quotes By Bill Gates

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

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.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

The microprocessor is a miracle.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.