Quotes By Bill Gates

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.