Quotes By Bill Gates

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.