Quotes By Bill Gates

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.