Quotes By Bill Gates

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.