Quotes By Bill Gates

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.